The Founder really shows the sort of relentless idea-filtering and -selection process an entrepreneur has to commit to. Could he have been a bit nicer? Probably not a high correlation for the personality type that’s comfortable with culling.
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
IG:TM is a controversial choice! It is generally considered very cherry-picked and sets an unrealistic view of the indie game market. It's a fun, feel-good movie no doubt, but I wouldn't recommend treating it as anything more than entertainment.
I saw so much suffering in that movie it never ocurred to me that it could be seen as a feel-good movie. The devs working on the game for 2-3 years while the life was collapsing around them. I found it cathartic but not a happy story.
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.
"Top Boy" qualifies as well in that respect (a new, and quite likely final, season has just been released). While not exactly as well-known as "Breaking Bad", it not only offers an insightful perspective on the drug trade itself but also on a specific London subculture.
Fundamentally, that show is about business and entrepreneurship. Sure, the industry might seem more than just a little shady and its methods often are ruthless, but basic business principles still apply (to quote one of the main characters: "Buy cheap, sell dear.").
An amazing TV series about a talented young man who bails out on his ambitions, and becomes a family man, only to grow old at an unsatisfying job, and finding himself facing his mortality, at which point he decides to change his life and achieves his true potential.
The trilogy received predominantly negative critic reviews and the aggregate USA box office is just under $9 million, with each film performing worse than the last on both accounts.
Atlas Shruugged trilogy represents $35 million in, 9 million return and no recognition of merit.
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[ 4.9 ms ] story [ 310 ms ] threadMargin 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.
- Super Pumped (about Uber)
Capitalism, Cronyism, sticktoitiveness, and, for the right price, you can buy anything.
Lord of War
Boiler Room
I second the other recommendation for Tetris.
These are:
- Indie game: the movie
- Moneyball
Flash of Genius
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.
Fundamentally, that show is about business and entrepreneurship. Sure, the industry might seem more than just a little shady and its methods often are ruthless, but basic business principles still apply (to quote one of the main characters: "Buy cheap, sell dear.").
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5028002/
-The 12 chairs
Also the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged_(film_series)