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Startup.com

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Release Date	2001
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Runtime	103 min
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Film Description

Appeared at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival This fascinating documentary, co-directed by Chris Hegedus (The War Room) and Jehane Noujaim, follows the dizzying highs and final, painful lows of a fledgling Internet company. Founded by friends Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman, govWorks.com was supposed to revolutionize the way people interacted with government bureaucracy; the film chronicles the pair as they secure financing, make deals and steadily increase the size of their empire as much through energetic enthusiasm and luck as through talent. When things start to fall apart - deadlines are missed, revenues fall and competing enterprises seem primed to overtake them - the rapport between the two men becomes strained until a previously unimaginable rift occurs. “One of the most involving pieces of eavesdropping you're likely to experience” - Elvis Mitchell, The New York Times.