2001 documentary film
Startup.com
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Startup_dot_com.jpg/220px-Startup_dot_com.jpg) Theatrical release poster
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Directed by
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Produced by
| D.A. Pennebaker
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Starring
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Cinematography
| Jehane Noujaim
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Edited by
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- Chris Hegedus
- Erez Laufer
- Jehane Noujaim
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Production
companies
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- Pennebaker Hegedus Films
- Noujaim Films
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Distributed by
| Artisan Entertainment
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Release dates
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- January 21, 2001
(
2001-01-21
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(
Sundance
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- May 11, 2001
(
2001-05-11
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(United States)
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Running time
| 106 minutes
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Country
| United States
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Language
| English
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Box office
| $1.8 million
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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
.
Production
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The film was produced by
D. A. Pennebaker
, and was directed by
Chris Hegedus
and
Jehane Noujaim
. Noujaim had been Kaleil Tuzman's
Harvard
classmate and began filming Tuzman as he quit his job at
Goldman Sachs
, to begin govWorks with his high school friend Tom Herman. Noujaim contacted Hegedus and Pennebaker for help in financing the project. The film was distributed by
Artisan Entertainment
(which was later acquired by
Lions Gate Entertainment
).
The film was shot in digital video. The filmmakers shot for over two years, and were editing the more than 400 hours of video and film right up to their
Sundance Film Festival
premiere in early 2001. They re-edited the last few minutes of the film just prior to its May 2001 theatrical release.
Since the film's release, Herman and Tuzman worked together again at Recognition Group and
JumpTV
.
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Startup.com
received positive reviews from film critics. On
Rotten Tomatoes
it holds a 93% approval rating, based on 94 reviews, with an average rating of 7.55/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Startup.com is more than just a look at the rise and fall of the new economy. At its center is a friendship being tested to the limit, and that's what makes it worth viewing."
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On
Metacritic
, the film has a score of 75 out of 100, based on reviews from 32 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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David Rooney of
Variety
called it a "timely, topical film, which goes beyond its potentially dry diet of facts to incorporate the juicy human drama of Machiavellian manipulations, ambition, torn loyalties and crushing betrayal."
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