Ask HN: What movie about entrepreneurship would you recommend?
I'm not just looking to be entertained, I would like to learn cool stuff about business and get inspired along the way. Is rolling the million-sided dice to win unicorn treats from VC/PE really even about “entrepreneurship”? These are: I really like this list. I would only add: - Indie game: the movie - Moneyball IG:TM is a controversial choice! It is generally considered very cherry-picked and sets an unrealistic view of the indie game market. It's a fun, feel-good movie no doubt, but I wouldn't recommend treating it as anything more than entertainment. I saw so much suffering in that movie it never ocurred to me that it could be seen as a feel-good movie. The devs working on the game for 2-3 years while the life was collapsing around them. I found it cathartic but not a happy story. > windshield wiper movie Flash of Genius The Social Network is a great film that manages to be inspiring and critical of its subject at the same time. Margin Call is about finance, not entrepreneurship, but it’s one of my favorite films. It only lasted a season or two, but How to Make it in America was pretty inspiring as well. "Silicon Valley". It's not a movie, but a documentary TV series about startup scene in '00 ;) Sitcom? Maybe a bit of both The Founder.
Not a movie but Halt and Catch Fire was really great. The Founder really shows the sort of relentless idea-filtering and -selection process an entrepreneur has to commit to. Could he have been a bit nicer? Probably not a high correlation for the personality type that’s comfortable with culling. Also gotta recommend Burden of Dreams, the making of Fitzcarraldo, which is arguably an even crazier story "Breaking Bad". Not a movie but series. Replace drug with any other product and the ingenuity of Walter White to scale the operations, hiring people, shifting operations to different locations, responding to competition makes it interesting. An amazing TV series about a talented young man who bails out on his ambitions, and becomes a family man, only to grow old at an unsatisfying job, and finding himself facing his mortality, at which point he decides to change his life and achieves his true potential. "Top Boy" qualifies as well in that respect (a new, and quite likely final, season has just been released). While not exactly as well-known as "Breaking Bad", it not only offers an insightful perspective on the drug trade itself but also on a specific London subculture. Fundamentally, that show is about business and entrepreneurship. Sure, the industry might seem more than just a little shady and its methods often are ruthless, but basic business principles still apply (to quote one of the main characters: "Buy cheap, sell dear."). The Aviator (2004) Also the
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged_(film_series) Not exactly good investment advice there though: McCabe and Mrs Miller is a great movie about creating a prostitution business in the Wild West. There Will Be Blood also (for obvious reasons) The founder and Air are must watch. Also, Guru (Bollywood) is a nice one - story of Dhirubhai Ambani, the man who founded Reliance industries Halt and Catch Fire Seriously underrated. Based on the 80s.The most realistic drama about entrepreneurship and relationships I've ever watched. StartUp (TV Series) The short series about Spotify and ofc The Founder Kitchen Nightmares, UK version. Operations, People, Marketing, Sane decision making, Passion. But not the US version. That's just drama. Riot On! It's an old story about the pre-touchphone days, but the same lessons still carry over. The documentary on General Magic. "Straight Outta Compton" (2015). - Narcos (about Pablo Escobar) - Super Pumped (about Uber) How to make money selling drugs (2012), followed by Narconomics: How To Run a Drug Cartel book. Pi. The insanity but absolute need to push on with the mission. Tetris I found The Profit series to be inspiring. Antitrust from 2001, its about Github. The Bridge to Nowhere Lord of War Boiler Room I second the other recommendation for Tetris. Startup, the documentary - Office space -The 12 chairs The Toy Capitalism, Cronyism, sticktoitiveness, and, for the right price, you can buy anything. Gattaca 1997 Primer Primer!
- Chef
- Big Night
- Joy
- Jerry Maguire
- The Founder
- Spare Parts (arguably)
- The one about the guy who invented intermittent windshield wipers and spent his whole life suing the megacorp that stole his idea
Atlas Shruugged trilogy represents $35 million in, 9 million return and no recognition of merit. The trilogy received predominantly negative critic reviews and the aggregate USA box office is just under $9 million, with each film performing worse than the last on both accounts.