Investor Breaks Down The Social Network's "Billion Dollar" Scene

Name: Investor Breaks Down The Social Network's "Billion Dollar" Scene
Uploaded: 2024-07-03T18:15:02+00:00
Duration: 25 s
Channel: Hiten Shah
Description: YouTube video (commentary) analyzing a scene from the film The Social Network in which characters debate monetizing Facebook versus keeping it 'cool,'…

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YouTube video (commentary) analyzing a scene from the film The Social Network in which characters debate monetizing Facebook versus keeping it 'cool,' culminating in the line 'A billion dollars.' The clip also includes an observation that such scenes helped inspire a surge in startup activity.

You know what? Settle an argument for us. I say it's time to start making money from the Facebook. Mark doesn't want to advertise. Who's right? Neither of you. Yet. The Facebook is cool. That's what it's got going for. Yeah, you don't want to ruin it with ads because ads aren't cool. Exactly. It's like you're throwing the greatest party on campus and someone's saying it's got to be over by 11. That's exactly right. You don't even know what the thing is yet. How big it can get, how far it can go. This is no time to take your chips down. A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? You.
A billion dollars.
I truly believe that this movie was one of the reasons there was such a big explosion in startups, and it's because of scenes like this.