Startup.com
Sign in to saveStartup.com is a 2001 American documentary film directed by Jehane Noujaim and Chris Hegedus, with D. A. Pennebaker serving as a producer on the film. It follows the dot-com start-up govWorks.com, which raised $60 million in funding from Hearst Interactive Media, KKR, the New York Investment Fund, and Sapient.
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6.7Friends since high school, 20-somethings Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman have an idea: a Web site for people to conduct business with municipal governments. This documentary tracks the rise and fall of govWorks.com from May of 1999 to December of 2000, and the trials the business brings to the relationship of these best friends. Kaleil raises the money, Tom's the technical chief. A third partner wants a buy out; girlfriends come and go; Tom's daughter needs attention. And always the need for cash and for improving the site. Venture capital comes in by the millions. Kaleil is on C-SPAN, CNN, and magazine covers. Will the business or the friendship crash first?
Released: 2001-01-21107 minDir: Chris HegedusDocumentary
Cast
- Kaleil Isaza Tuzman as Self
- Tom Herman as Self
- Kenneth Austin as Self
- Tricia Burke as Self
- Roy Burston as Self
- David Camp as Self
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Key dates
- Published
- 8 August 2002
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- dot-com bubble
- Director
- Chris Hegedus
- Producer
- D. A. Pennebaker
- Cinematographer
- Jehane Noujaim
- Duration
- +107
- FilmAffinity ID
- 633678
- Distribution format
Article
6 sectionsContents
- Production
- Reception
- Critical response
- See also
- References
- External links
Startup.com is a 2001 American documentary film directed by Jehane Noujaim and Chris Hegedus, with D. A. Pennebaker serving as a producer on the film. It follows the dot-com start-up govWorks.com, which raised $60 million in funding from Hearst Interactive Media, KKR, the New York Investment Fund, and Sapient.
The startup did not survive, but it became a reference for lessons learned, as it was the subject of a 2001 documentary that follows govWorks founders Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman from 1999 to 2000, as the Internet bubble was bursting.