Startup.com (2001)
1h 47m
Running Time
January 21, 2001Release Date
Plot.
Friends 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?
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Kaleil Isaza Tuzman
Self
Tom Herman
Self
Kenneth Austin
Self
Roy Burston
Self
Tricia Burke
Self
David Camp
Self
Chris Hegedus
Director
Dora Glottman
Self
Jehane Noujaim
Director
Julian Herbstein
Self
D. A. Pennebaker
Producer
Christina Ortez
Self
Pedro Pablo Celedón
Editor
Jonathan Agus
Self
Erez Laufer
Editor
Chieh Cheung
Self
Sean Coar
Self
Ambika Conroy
Self
Patrick Cromer
Self
Jerry Greenberg
Self
Richard Herman
Self
Susan Herman
Self
Tia Herman
Self
Bob Higgins
Self
Maynard Jackson
Self
Brian Locke
Self
Bryan Mundy
Self
Spyros Poulios
Self
Marvin Pritchett
Self
Robert Tisch
Self
Ani Tuzman
Self
Kristen Kimball
Self
Details.
Wiki.
Startup.com is a 2001 American documentary film directed by Jehane Noujaim and Chris Hegedus. D. A. Pennebaker served 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.
The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2001. It was released on May 11, 2001, by Artisan Entertainment.