Startup.com

Name: Startup.com
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2001
Duration: 107 min
Cast: Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, Tom Herman, Kenneth Austin, Tricia Burke, Roy Burston

2001 · 107 min · Director: Chris Hegedus, Jehane Noujaim

Startup.com (2001) is a documentary, directed by Chris Hegedus and Jehane Noujaim. It stars Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman. The 107-minute film holds an audience score of 6.7/10.

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Cast

K Kaleil Isaza Tuzman T Tom Herman K Kenneth Austin T Tricia Burke R Roy Burston D David Camp

What Startup.com Is About

Kaleil and Tom have been friends since school. In 1999 they have an idea: a website where people can do their business with city government. They call it govWorks. Kaleil raises the money, Tom builds the technical side. Investment arrives in the millions, the office grows, Kaleil is on television and on magazine covers. Then the internet bubble bursts. The site does not work, the money runs out, the partners turn on each other. The camera is in the boardroom and also in the room where the two friends have it out. Chris Hegedus and Jehane Noujaim direct together; a hundred and seven minutes, shot between May 1999 and December 2000, with D. A. Pennebaker among the producers. What it records is not a company going under but two friends losing each other in the same room.