HACKER Q&A
📣 ricoche

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.


  👤 blockwriter Accepted Answer ✓

👤 caeciliusest
Tetris

👤 vimy
The Founder. Not a movie but Halt and Catch Fire was really great.

👤 keiferski
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.


👤 readyplayernull
I found The Profit series to be inspiring.

👤 joshxyz
- Narcos (about Pablo Escobar)

- Super Pumped (about Uber)


👤 MrFots
The Toy

Capitalism, Cronyism, sticktoitiveness, and, for the right price, you can buy anything.


👤 rahimnathwani
The Bridge to Nowhere

Lord of War

Boiler Room

I second the other recommendation for Tetris.


👤 fruity231
How to make money selling drugs (2012), followed by Narconomics: How To Run a Drug Cartel book.

👤 robsun
"Silicon Valley". It's not a movie, but a documentary TV series about startup scene in '00 ;)

👤 qzuipo
"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.


👤 Kaibeezy
Is rolling the million-sided dice to win unicorn treats from VC/PE really even about “entrepreneurship”?

These are:

  - 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

👤 world2vec
"Straight Outta Compton" (2015).

👤 rasz
Antitrust from 2001, its about Github.

👤 dp-hackernews

👤 hulitu
- Office space

-The 12 chairs


👤 elevaet
Primer!