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The Cost of Ambition and Regret
Sean Parker
A Stanford MBA named ] wants to buy his wife some lingerie, but he's too embarrassed to shop for it at a department store. He comes up with an idea for a high end place that doesn't make you feel like a pervert. He gets a $40,000 bank loan, borrows another $40,000 from his in-laws, opens a store, and calls it ]. Makes a half million dollars his first year. He starts a catalog, opens three more stores, and after five years, he sells the company to ] and the Limited for four million dollars. Happy ending, right? Except two years later, the company's worth 500 million dollars, and Roy Raymond jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge. Poor guy just wanted to buy his wife a pair of thigh highs.
[[w:Roy Raymond (businessman)|Roy Raymond; [w:Victoria's Secret|Victoria's Secret; [w:Leslie Wexner|Leslie Wexner]
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Conflict Over Company Representation and Location
Eduardo Saverin
I don't want that guy representing himself as a part of this company.
[About Sean Parker]
Mark Zuckerberg
You gotta move out here, Wardo; this is where its all happening.
Eduardo Saverin
Did you hear what I just said?
Mark Zuckerberg
The connections, the energy--
Eduardo Saverin
Mark, you gotta--
Mark Zuckerberg
I'm afraid if you don't come out here, you're gonna get left behind. I want... I need you out here. Please don't tell him {Sean} I said that.
[Interrupting; Embarrassed]
Eduardo Saverin
What did you just say?
Mark Zuckerberg
It's moving faster than any of us ever imagined it would. It's moving fast.
Eduardo Saverin
What did you mean?
Mark Zuckerberg
And Sean thinks we have...
Eduardo Saverin
Sean's not a part of this company.
[Interrupting]
Mark Zuckerberg
We have over 300,000 members Wardo...
Eduardo Saverin
I'm aware of that.
Mark Zuckerberg
...and we're in 160 schools, including five in Europe.
Eduardo Saverin
I'm aware of that! MARK, I'M THE CFO!!
[Getting angry]
Mark Zuckerberg
We need more programmers, and we need more money, and he's set up the Thiel meeting. He set up meetings all over town.
Eduardo Saverin
He set up other meetings?
Mark Zuckerberg
Yes.
Eduardo Saverin
Without me knowing anything about it?
Mark Zuckerberg
You were in New York!
[Irritated]
Eduardo Saverin
I'M IN NEW YORK, RIDING SUBWAYS 14 HOURS A DAY, TRYING TO FIND ADVERTISERS!!
[Angry again]
Mark Zuckerberg
Yeah, and how's it going so far?!
Eduardo Saverin
What did you mean, "get left behind"?
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Cost of a Speeding Ticket
Marylin Delpy
Pay them. In the scheme of things, it's a speeding ticket.
[to Mark, telling him to settle with the Winkelvoss twins for $65 million]
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Discussion of Financial Contributions
Gretchen
Eighteen thousand dollars?
Eduardo Saverin
Yes.
Gretchen
In addition to the one thousand dollars you'd already put up.
Eduardo Saverin
Yes.
Gretchen
A total of nineteen thousand dollars, now.
Eduardo Saverin
Yes.
Mark Zuckerberg
Hang on.
Mark Zuckerberg
I'm just checking your math on that. Yes, I got the same thing.
[sarcastic pause]
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Striving for Connection Amid Misunderstanding
Marylin Delpy
You're not an asshole, Mark. You're just trying so hard to be.
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Ownership and Responsibility in Innovation
Mark Zuckerberg
A guy who makes a nice chair doesn't owe money to everyone who has ever built a chair.
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The Essence of Innovation and Ownership
Mark Zuckerberg
You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.
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A Conversation About Arrival and Timing
Christy Lee
When did you get back?
Eduardo Saverin
You scared me. I need you to knock.
Christy Lee
When did you get back?
[Sternly]
Eduardo Saverin
I got back this afternoon.
Christy Lee
And when were you going to call me?
Eduardo Saverin
Chris, it was kind of a rough trip and I was tired and...
Christy Lee
Or answer one of my 47 texts? Did you know I sent 47 texts?
Eduardo Saverin
I did, and I thought that was incredibly normal behavior.
Christy Lee
Are you mocking me?
Eduardo Saverin
I brought you a present.
Christy Lee
Why does your status say "single" on your Facebook page?
Eduardo Saverin
What?
Christy Lee
Why does your relationship status say "single" on your Facebook page?!
Eduardo Saverin
I was single when I set up the page.
Christy Lee
And you somehow never bothered to change it?
Eduardo Saverin
I –
Christy Lee
What?
[looks at him sternly]
Eduardo Saverin
I don't know how.
Christy Lee
Do I look stupid to you?
Eduardo Saverin
No. Calm down.
Christy Lee
You're asking me to believe that the CFO of Facebook doesn't know how to change his relationship status on Facebook?!
Eduardo Saverin
It's a little embarrassing, so you should take it as a sign of trust that I would tell you that.
Christy Lee
Go to hell.
Eduardo Saverin
Take it easy.
Christy Lee
No! You didn't change it so you could screw those Silicon Valley sluts every time you got to see Mark!
Eduardo Saverin
It's not even remotely true, and I can promise you that the Silicon Valley sluts don't care what anyone's relationship status is on Facebook. Please open your present.
[his cell phone rings]
Christy Lee
Your phone does work. It's Mark.
Eduardo Saverin
This is gonna be tricky. Please open your present. It's a silk scarf.
Christy Lee
Have you ever seen me wear a scarf?
Eduardo Saverin
This will be your first. Yeah?
[answering his cell phone]
Mark Zuckerberg
You froze our account?
Eduardo Saverin
I did.
Mark Zuckerberg
You froze the account!
Eduardo Saverin
I had to get your attention, Mark.
Mark Zuckerberg
Do you realize that you jeopardized the entire company? Do you realize that your actions could have permanently destroyed everything I've been working on?
Eduardo Saverin
We have been working on!
Mark Zuckerberg
Without money, the site can't function. Okay, let me tell you the difference between Facebook and everyone else: we don't crash, ever! If those servers are down for even a day, our entire reputation is irreversibly destroyed! Users are fickle, Friendster has proved that. Even a few people leaving would reverberate through the entire userbase. The users are interconnected, that is the whole point. College kids are online because their friends are online, and if one domino goes, the other dominoes go, don't you get that?! I am not going back to the Caribbean Night at AEPi!
[speaking frantically, almost hysterical]
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The Internet's Permanent Nature Explained
Erica Albright
The internet isn't written in pencil, Mark. It's written in ink.
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Filming Location Discussion in The Social Network
Parker
You know this is where they filmed ].
[[w:The Towering Inferno|Towering Inferno]
Zuckerberg
That's comforting.
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The Value of Coolness in Wealth
Sean Parker
A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion dollars.
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Critique of Erica Albright's Character and Appearance
Mark Zuckerberg
Erica Albright's a bitch. Do you think that's because her family changed their name from Albrecht, or do you think that's because all BU girls are bitches? For the record, she may look like a 34C, but she's getting all kinds of help from our friends at Victoria's Secret. She's a 34B as in barely anything there. False Advertising.
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Perceptions of Success and Personal Relationships
Erica Albright
You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole.
[to Mark]
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A Conversation on Attention and Deservingness
Gage
Mr. Zuckerberg, do I have your full attention?
Mark Zuckerberg
No.
[stares out the window]
Gage
Do you think I deserve it?
Mark Zuckerberg
What?
[looks at the lawyer]
Gage
Do you think I deserve your full attention?
Mark Zuckerberg
I had to swear an oath before we began this deposition, and I don't want to perjure myself, so I have a legal obligation to say no.
Gage
Okay – no. You don't think I deserve your attention.
Mark Zuckerberg
I think if your clients want to sit on my shoulders and call themselves tall, they have the right to give it a try, but there's no requirement that I enjoy sitting here listening to people lie. You have part of my attention – you have the minimum amount. The rest of my attention is back at the offices of Facebook, where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, are intellectually or creatively capable of doing. Did I adequately answer your condescending question?
[pauses]
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Perception of Truth in Creation Myths
Mark Zuckerberg
I'm not a bad guy.
Marylin Delpy
I know that. When there's emotional testimony, I assume that 85% of it is exaggeration.
Mark Zuckerberg
And the other 15?
Marylin Delpy
Perjury. Creation myths need a Devil.
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Friendship and Betrayal in Business Ventures
Mark Zuckerberg
I went to my friend for the money because that's who I wanted to be partners with. Eduardo was the president of the Harvard Investors Association, and he was also my best friend.
Gage
Your best friend is suing you for $600 million.
Mark Zuckerberg
I didn't know that, tell me more.
[Sarcastically]
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Discussing Legal Actions Against a Competitor
Cameron Winklevoss
What, do you want to hire an IP lawyer and sue him?
[about Mark]
Divya Narendra
No, I want to hire the Sopranos to beat the shit out of him with a hammer!
Tyler Winklevoss
We don't even have to do that.
Cameron Winklevoss
That's right.
Tyler Winklevoss
We can do that ourselves. I'm 6'5", 220, and there's two of me.
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Purpose of Trip to New York Discussed
Gretchen
Eduardo, spring break, you and Mr. Zuckerberg took a trip to New York.
Saverin
Yes.
Gretchen
What was the purpose of the trip?
Saverin
Well, as CFO, I had set up some meetings with potential advertisers.
Gretchen
Who paid for the trip?
Saverin
It was paid for out of the thousand dollar account I had set up a few months earlier.
Gretchen
At this point, your thousand dollars was the only money that had been put into the company?
Saverin
Yes.
Gretchen
How did you feel the meetings went.
Saverin
They went terribly.
Gretchen
Why?
Saverin
Mark was asleep.
Zuckerburg
I was not asleep.
Saverin
Can I rephrase my answer? I wish he'd been asleep.
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Defining Entrepreneurship and Unemployment
Amy (Amelia Ritter)
What do you do?
Sean Parker
I'm an entrepreneur.
Amy
You're unemployed.
Sean Parker
I wouldn't say that.
Amy
What would you say?
Sean Parker
That I'm an entrepreneur.
Amy
Well what was your latest "preneur"?
Sean Parker
Well, I founded an Internet company that let folks download and share music for free.
Amy
Kind of like Napster?
Sean Parker
Exactly like Napster.
Amy
What do you mean?
Sean Parker
I founded Napster.
Amy
Sean Parker founded Napster.
Sean Parker
Nice to meet you.
Amy
You're Sean Parker?
[stunned]
Sean Parker
Aha! You see, the shoe is on the other...
Amy
Foot?
Sean Parker
Table. Which has turned.
Amy
I just slept with Sean Parker?
Sean Parker
You just slept on Sean Parker.
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Questioning Trust and Loyalty in Business
Eduardo Saverin
You don't think it's strange that he {Sean} was followed by private detectives?
Mark Zuckerberg
Who came up with nothing.
Eduardo Saverin
Enough to get him out of the company. The drugs, the girls.
Mark Zuckerberg
We don't know any of that's true.
Eduardo Saverin
You can read about it.
Mark Zuckerberg
I can read about you torturing birds. Since when did you--
Eduardo Saverin
OK, DON'T FISH EAT OTHER FISH?! THE MARLINS AND THE TROUT?!!
[Livid]
Dustin Moskovitz
What's he talking about?
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Wishing Success in a Digital Endeavor
Erica Albright
Good luck with your video game.
[after Mark unsuccessfully tries to apologize for the Facemash stunt]
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Perceptions and Misunderstandings in Relationships
Sean Parker
You think you know me, don't you?
Eduardo Saverin
I've read enough.
Sean Parker
You know how much I've read about you? Nothing.
[whispers]
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Communication Breakdown Among Friends
Eduardo Saverin
Mark. Mark!
Sean Parker
He's wired in.
Eduardo Saverin
I'm sorry?
Sean Parker
He's wired in.
Eduardo Saverin
Is he?
Sean Parker
Yes.
Eduardo Saverin
How bout now? Still "wired in"?!
Sean Parker
Call security.
Eduardo Saverin
You issued 24 million new shares of stock?!
Mark Zuckerberg
You-- You were told that if new investors came along--
Eduardo Saverin
How much were your shares diluted? How much were his?
[Points to Sean]
Gretchen
What was Mr. Zuckerberg's ownership share diluted down to?
Eduardo Saverin
It wasn't.
Gretchen
What was Mr. Moskovitz's ownership share diluted down to?
Eduardo Saverin
It wasn't.
Gretchen
What was Sean Parker's ownership share diluted down to?
Eduardo Saverin
It wasn't.
Gretchen
What was Peter Thiel's ownership share diluted down to?
Eduardo Saverin
It wasn't.
Gretchen
And what was your ownership share diluted down to?
Eduardo Saverin
.03 percent.
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Conflict Over Responsibility in Business Decisions
Mark Zuckerberg
You signed the papers.
Eduardo Saverin
You set me up.
[In the verge of tears]
Mark Zuckerberg
You're gonna blame me because you were the business head of the company and you made a bad business deal with your own company?
Eduardo Saverin
This is gonna be like I'm not a part of Facebook!
Sean Parker
It won't be like you're not a part of Facebook. You're not a part of Facebook.
Eduardo Saverin
My name's on the masthead.
Sean Parker
You might wanna check again.
Eduardo Saverin
This because I froze the account?!
Sean Parker
Did you think we were going to let you parade around in your ridiculous suits pretending you were running this company?
Eduardo Saverin
I'M SORRY! MY PRADA'S AT THE CLEANERS, , along with my hoodie and my "fuck you" flip-flops! You pretentious douchebag!
[snaps, turns to Sean; turns back to Mark]
Sean Parker
Security's here, you'll be leaving now.
Eduardo Saverin
I'm not signing those papers.
Sean Parker
We will get the signature.
Eduardo Saverin
Tell me this isn't about me getting into the Phoenix!
Eduardo Saverin
You...! You did it, I knew you did it! You planted the story about the chicken!
Mark Zuckerberg
I didn't plant the story about the chicken.
Sean Parker
What's he talking about?
Eduardo Saverin
You had me accused of animal cruelty!
Sean Parker
Seriously, what the hell's the chicken?
Eduardo Saverin
And I'll bet what you hated the most was that they identified me as a co-founder of Facebook, which I am. You better lawyer up, asshole! Because I'm not just coming back for 30%, I'm coming back for everything.
Sean Parker
Get him out of here.
Eduardo Saverin
It's okay, I'm going.
Sean Parker
Hang on! Almost forgot. Here's your $19,000. I wouldn't cash it, though. I drew it on the account you froze.
[Pulls out a check]
Eduardo Saverin
I like standing next to you, Sean. It makes me look so tough.
[smirking]
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Facebook's Global Reach and Personal Rivalries
Marylin Delpy
What are you doing?
Mark Zuckerberg
Checking in to see how it's going in Bosnia.
Marylin Delpy
Bosnia. They don't have roads, but they have Facebook. You must really hate the Winklevosses.
[pause]
Mark Zuckerberg
I don't hate anybody. The "Winklevii" aren't suing me for intellectual property theft. They're suing me because for the first time in their lives, things didn't go exactly the way they were supposed to for them.
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