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Compare your impressions of Mark Zuckerberg and the Winklevoss twins (interviews vs. movie).
Read handout "How Mark Zuckerberg Booted His Co-Founder Out of the Company."
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The Social Network made Mark Zuckerberg sound like a back stabbing person who had nobody's interests in mind but his own. After watching this video I think much differently about him. He had a great idea and formed into into a company that sold for $104 billion. The Winklevoss twins could not have done something this extraordinary .The twins were made out to be very nice and reasonable people in the movie but the fact that they weren't okay with olympic medals and a $65 million payout makes me question their character.
ReplyDeleteI think Mark Zuckerburg's character in the movie was very snobby and he came off as a douche bag. His action in the room of court clearly displayed this. He didn't seem like that bad of a guy on his interviews. He just seemed like an awkward, somewhat sarcastic guy. Then again, hollywood ran with his character. The Winklevoss twins' characteristics on the movie seemed accurate to their characteristics in real life. They seem like preppy, frat boys in real life as well. The movie did a good job of portraying these characters in Social Network.
ReplyDeleteIn the movie, Mark Zuckerberg seemed to be more of an anti social, apathetic, uptight, and sassy kind of guy. In the interviews, Mark seems to be more humble and even enthusiastic about the impact his story has made on inspiring others to do big things and really seems to care about how to make things better for everyone around him. I also noticed that as they tried to make it seem like the website was somewhat a ploy to get revenge on his ex girlfriend/ win back his ex in the movie, it makes him seem like a sort of selfish person, and in real life he was dating a girl from even before the creation of facebook. Also his loyalty to his current girlfriend and the fact he has stayed with her for so long kind of proves that he is a genuine guy and even more likable than the movie made him out to be. It takes a lot to maintain a strong relationship with someone in the early stages of future success, and clearly considering the two are married now, he was able to juggle both his business as well as being there for his wife. Also, Zuckerberg in the movie seemed to betray Saverin worse in the movie than he really did in real life. In reality, the "booting out of his co-founder" (Eduardo Saverin) was actually called for and Mark's reasoning was truly valid (business insider article). On the other hand, I think the Winklevoss Twins were portrayed almost spot on in the movie in comparison to real life. Even though you don't see much from the twins in the interview, you can already tell from the short clip they are in that they are almost exactly the same their characters in the movie.
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