Startup.com (Full Screen): Amazon.ca: DVD

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Directors Chris Hegedus (The War Room) and Jehane Noujaim couldn't have imagined the drama that awaited when they began documenting the creation of the pioneering e-commerce site govWorks.com. For over a year they followed the company, the brainchild of childhood-friends-turned-business-partners software geek and doting single dad Tom Herman, and ambitious young business-school-grad-turned-company-CEO Kaleil Isaza Tuzman. During the rise of the Internet investment frenzy and the subsequent crash of the dot-economy, the cameras remain keyed into the human dynamic: the lifestyle compromises, the personal sacrifices, and the clash of philosophies and personalities that ultimately tear boyhood buddies Tom and Kaleil apart...almost. Startup.com's portrait of the cutthroat nature of American business culture and the choices one makes (or doesn't) to succeed poses the one question most documentaries ignore: Is it worth it? --Sean Axmaker

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5.0 out of 5 stars HILARIOUS!!! Why is this not a comedy?, April 5 2004

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TheQuagmire (Gainesville, FL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Startup.com (Full Screen) (DVD)

I can't say enough about this DVD. It's what happens when an egotistical moron and his subserviant pushover "friend" from high school start a company based on something they know nothing about. As you watch the movie, it becomes clear that neither of them know anything about computers, programming, or the necessity of a functional product. Just look at when they're in a meeting and Kaleil is confused by "things flying across the monitor." I'd bet money it's a screensaver. Just look at how they cut out the solution to the problem there. What could this huge number of employees POSSIBLY be doing? A simple database program like this could be made by less than 10 people in a week!! The most hilarious part in my opinion is that Tom winds up going back to work with Kaleil after it's all over. How can't he see that he's been used? A better question is how do the editors of the documentary buy into Kaleil's rhetoric? When they're doing their commentary in the extras, they don't seem to notice the humor of the situation at all. I think Dora said it best: they're a bunch of little kids all dressed up playing grownup. I'd point out other stuff, but there just isn't enough space to glorify every moment. Beware if you're looking for a serious dramatic work, but if you're looking for an evening of laughs and self esteem improvement, you've got it!

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5.0 out of 5 stars I went to high school with this jerk, Dec 24 2003

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Mike Young (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Startup.com (Full Screen) (DVD)

Both Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and I took the same bus to Amherst Regional High School every day. He would always be mouthing off, pontificating about some garbage about culture or business. I remember one day he was going on about how the New England dialect of English was the closest to the true accent of the language. To whom he was talking I have no idea, no one could stand the guy and no one could listen to him beyond half-hearted attempts at humoring him. I think he may have been in the Future Business Leaders of America too, though I don't care enough to check the yearbook. So it's always satisfying to see someone make a widespread documentary about some loudmouth putz you went to high school with. But you needn't have gone to school to laugh at this clown's repugnant personality, it comes through fine in the film as one can tell from all the praise the movie has gotten from people who never even knew him.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Documentary, July 8 2004

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Kirk Anderson (Milwaukee, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Startup.Com (VHS Tape)

This documentary rocks. Great for budding entrepreneurs, and entertaining for just about anybody.

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