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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: At the core, this is a relationship movie and a relationship movie about the relationship between founders at that. Sometimes relationships make or break startups more than the numbers or the product. Startups are made of people and the people part is very, very important.
Final Score: 98
What it’s about: David Mamet’s award-winning play about a group of desperate real estate agents comes to the big screen from director James Foley. In a role created specifically for the movie, Alec Baldwin appears as a sales motivator, informing the group of hard-luck salesmen that they must compete in a sales contest where the losers will be fired. The agents work their same tired leads, until one hatches a scheme to burglarize the office, steal the leads, and sell them to a rival. Featuring a cast that includes Al Pacino as the office’s sales leader, Jack Lemmon as an elderly loser, Alan Arkin and Ed Harris as frustrated salesmen, Kevin Spacey as the harassed office manager, and Jonathan Pryce as a client, Glengarry Glen Ross is, at its core, a character study about a group of men whose time has passed.
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: Coffee is for closers! This is hands down the greatest sales movie ever created (and the most quoted). If you are in the startup game, you are in the sales game (you are selling yourself, selling your startup, selling a dream to your employees, etc.). This is a must watch.
Final Score: 97.5
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: Enron was one of the most egregious and largest by the numbers cases of corporate corruption in history. How did it happen? How can it be prevented?
Final Score: 93.5
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: Hands down the best movie about Jobs. A look inside the man and his relationships. There is a certain type of startup founder that fights into the coming waves instead of fighting against them. 99.99% of these founders end up looking ridiculous (and broke), the others end up visionaries (and billionaires).
Final Score: 93
What it’s about: Writer/director Adam McKay joins forces with Paramount Pictures and Plan B Entertainment to adapt Michael Lewis’ best-seller The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, which centers on the housing a credit bubble of the 2000s.
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: It was all fun and games until the world economy came crashing down. How did that happen? How can complexity and greed bring such a huge system crashing down. How can you avoid the same within your own organization? What’s your plan if the economy comes crashing down again? Definitely watch if you are in fintech.
Final Score: 89
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: One coach thought really, really hard about baseball and then, using statistics, changed the game. The same happened on Wall Street, the same will probably happen in your niche. What data could you be using to change your game, whatever it is? Definitely watch if you are in the sports industry.
Final Score: 87
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: Idiots committing fraud. Idiots raising huge, huge amounts of money. How did they raise so much money in the first place? What’s stopping me from raising that much money? Definitely watch if you are in the festival or music industry.
Final Score: 85.5
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: Take a look back into the past at our predecessors. See their clever scheming and jockeying for power. I guess some things never change.
Final Score: 85
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: Jiro is a perfectionist and a relentless adherer to process. Jiro is also a life long learner and innovator in his world (Sushi). Definitely watch if you are in the restaurant or hospitality industry.
Final Score: 84.5
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: Elizabeth Holmes once hailed as the greatest female entrepreneurs of all time is now facing prison time. What was her story and how did she do it? How did she fall? Definitely watch if you are in the biotech or health industries.
Final Score: 83.5
What it’s about: Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, Margin Call is an entangling thriller involving the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. When an entry-level analyst unlocks information that could prove to be the downfall of the firm, a roller-coaster ride ensues as decisions both financial and moral catapult the lives of all involved to the brink of disaster. Writer/director J.C. Chandor’s enthralling first feature is a stark and bravely authentic portrayal of the financial industry and its denizens as they confront the decisions that shape our global future.
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Another take on the 2008 financial crisis. This one takes a more somber tone. Great watch for the power dynamics at play within the firm as well as the greater economic lessons. Definitely watch if you are in fintech.
Final Score: 83.5
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: Social media is a huge force and people have built entire businesses off of it. What do their lives look like and how did they do it? What drives social media traffic and how can it be harnessed? Definitely watch if you are in the social media industry.
Final Score: 82
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: A great and realistic portrayal of what a potential human or suprahuman AI may look like and come to be. Definitely watch if you are in the IoT industry or work with machine learning.
Final Score: 81
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: Startup founders are masters of doing a lot with a little. But we are no comparison to astronaut Mark Watney. This is what is called “Extreme Bootstrapping.” Definitely watch if you are in the space travel or aeronautical industries.
Final Score: 80.5
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: McDonalds, the billion dollar giant and the face of the fast food industry. How was it built? Definitely watch if you are in the food or restaurant industries.
Final Score: 80.5
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: A classic about legacy and building, and leaving behind, empires. An older movie but a must watch. Definitely watch if you are in the media or news industry.
Final Score: 80
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: Wall Street captures an era and an ethos of a money making machine. A great expose on greed and capitalism. Definitely watch if you are in fintech.
Final Score: 79
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: An absolute classic. If you like the firs one, watch the rest in the series. What makes people hold “power” in an organization. How do they keep “power.” What happens in an organization when its hierarchy is disrupted?
Final Score: 79
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: What does deep, deeply rooted corruption in an organization look like? How is it rooted out? Watch one man unravel an organization of people who often have convinced themselves to look the other way. Definitely watch if you are in the media or news industry.
Final Score: 78.5
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: I hate to break it to you, but you are mostly made of corn. Definitely watch if you are in the farming, packaging, or food industries.
Final Score: 78
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: Food is an industry, a big one at that. Definitely watch if you are in the farming, packaging, or food industries.
Final Score: 77.5
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: As AI and “smart homes” become more and more prominent, where is this industry going? You will never look at Alexa the same… Definitely watch if you are in the IoT space.
Final Score: 77
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: Still holds up as the greatest biotech and genetic engineering movies of all time. Startlingly ahead of its time, definitely watch if you are in either of those industries.
Final Score: 76.5
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: One of the most overlooked movies of all time. What could be happening in the media that’s not? This movie was way, way ahead of its time. Definitely watch if you are in the media or news industry.
Final Score: 76
What it’s about: Martin Scorsese directs the story of New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort. From the American dream to corporate greed, Belfort goes from penny stocks and righteousness to IPOs and a life of corruption in the late 80s. Excess success and affluence in his early twenties as founder of the brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont warranted Belfort the title “The Wolf of Wall Street.”
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: We’re making money baby! Jordan Belfort, one of the greatest swindlers of modern times. How did this man build an empire off of garbage. Sometimes a great product is not what it takes to IPO. Definitely watch if you are in fintech.
Final Score: 74.5
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: Stocks, cold calling, dirty dealings. Wall street has a lot in common with the startup world. Another movie about greed on Wall Street. Definitely watch if you are in fintech.
Final Score: 73
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: A great introduction to Freakonomics, one of the best resources to learn lessons on the economy and human behavior. If you like the movie, also check out their podcasts and books.
Final Score: 73
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: Another great gangster movie. Watch for the power dynamics and organizational lessons.
Final Score: 73
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: Another great movie about doing a lot with a little. Definitely watch if you are in the space travel or aeronautical industries.
Final Score: 73
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: What are people morbidly fascinated with and how does this turn into a business? How does interest drive revenue? What happens when you begin to rely on one employee whose motives are questionable at best… Definitely watch if you are in the media or news industry.
Final Score: 72.5
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: A great treatise on wealth and losing wealth. This one is a documentary so you get a real peak into the life of a super wealthy family. These people may look like your clients or maybe even a future you. Be careful.
Final Score: 72.5
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: How does news and social media influence the politics of a nation? How can news and social media be manipulated to change the story of a dynasty? What does real power look like? Definitely watch if you are in the news or media industry.
Final Score: 71.5
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: A rise and fall story about leveraging what you have and humility. Definitely watch if you are in the media, entertainment, or sports industries.
Final Score: 71.5
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: A very strong con movie. Like many con movies, has a lot of lessons about controlling appearances and controlling behavior for the purposes of persuasion. If you are a startup founder you are going to need a lot of persuasion
Final Score: 71
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: A story about building an unlikely business as an outsider. A story about crafting environments for your customers. Definitely watch if you are in the gambling industry.
Final Score: 71
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: How do disasters and failure happen? Why don’t people see it coming? What do the relationships of the people involved look like? Definitely see if you are in the entertainment industry.
Final Score: 70.5
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: A comedy about the drudgery of office life and escaping it. Hilariously quotable and will ring true with a lot of founders who escaped just the kind of monotony depicted.
Final Score: 70
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: What are the corporate and human resources of space travel? What resources are out there and how are we going to extract them? Definitely watch if you are in the space travel or resource extraction industries.
Final Score: 70
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: Warren Buffet produced disproportionate results with what he had. Very, very disproportionate results. What makes the man tick? Definitely watch if you are in fintech.
Final Score: 70
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: A great movie on how we treat animals and animals in captivity. Definitely watch if you are in the pets or animal care industry.
Final Score: 69
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: How is your cult going? If you are running a startup you have more in common with cult founders than you might think. Watch a master of mass persuasion at the height of his craft.
Final Score: 67.5
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: Another treatise on persuasion and appearances. Sometimes the devil has glasses and a funny haircut.
Final Score: 66.5
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: A look into the alluring world of fashion and a character study on obsession. Definitely watch if you are in the clothing or fashion industries.
Final Score: 65.5
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: A character study on a man whose personality was so strange and so powerful he is hard to forget. Watch for the flawless acting alone. Definitely watch if you are in the media or entertainment industry.
Final Score: 65
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: The most underrated gangster movie ever made. Hilarious and engaging, every character’s actions lead them on forever intertwining collision courses. Another movie about empire building and rise and falls. Definitely watch if you are in the gambling industry.
Final Score: 65
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: A great sci fi movie about virtual reality and biotechnology. Definitely watch if you are in one of those two industries.
Final Score: 62
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: A great character study about what makes people tick. Look into the lives of different people and see why the ended up who they are doing what they are doing. Definitely watch if you are in any industry having to do with public speaking or often have to present.
Final Score: 61.5
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: A good movie about routine. Forming routine, escaping routine, questioning routine. Some other good business lessons sprinkled in as well.
Final Score: 61
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: A movie about math and mental health. What secrets do numbers hold?
Final Score: 59
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Why Startup Founders Should Watch It: It is crazy what four guys in a garage can build. This movie is that idea taken to the extreme.
Final Score: 56.5
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