Startup.com

This documentary was really interesting for me. Basically this documentary was about three friends, Kaleil, Tom, and Chieh, starting a business for an internet company. They wanted to become rich off of this company. At first, they struggled with the name, but eventually settled with the name GovWorks.com. This website primarily allowed you to pay your parking tickets online, using their website. During the development process of the company, they seem to struggle with the third friend, Chieh, not cooperating and committing to the business. At this point, they decide to remove him from the company. It was very stressful for them, Kaleil being the CEO and Tom being the co-CEO, because it put a lot of stress on both their business relationships, and their personal relationship, which they have had since they were in high school. Tom also had a daughter, which being a part of the business really neglected time spent with his daughter. During the creation of the website, Tom running the tech side of things, their seems to be many problems, almost as if during the creation of the business, they never really thought about the logistics of making the website itself. That on top of having competition that was launched faster and more complete, the company was in a lot of stress and had a lot of problems. At this point Tom did not care much about the business anymore, and seemed to want a way out of it, which forced Kaleil to have to let him go from the company, which was overall good for the company, but bad for Kaleil and Tom's personal relationship. Overall, I really enjoyed this documentary, as it showed a lot of ups and downs of the dot com boom and bust, and showed how stressful and hard running a business can really be.