The Social Network Movie (2010)

After spending time watching Zuckerberg's life movie, I figured out that the story is nothing different from what Bill Gate's history movie is. If you once watched Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999), it's a film relating the beginnings of Apple, Inc. and Microsoft.


The movie relates a story on which Bill Gates allies with Jobs in order to obtain more ideas, and have them applied to its own company. I remember a phrase that pretty much related the 1999 movie to last year's movie, stating "Good artists copy, great artists steal".


In the "Facebook" movie, Mark Zuckerberg is shown as a Harvard student which is given an idea, had it improved, and became rich. Not saying that improving an idea is stealing, since MySpace, Hi5, and other social websites were already popular by the time Facebook started.

Mark Zuckerberg

However, we see the success in both main characters by getting the idea from someone else. If this was a natural rule life, we could think that originality is a cheap-obsolete concept these days.

In my personal opinion, The Social Network is a movie that could inspire thousands of developers by watching Zuckerberg's success on taking an existing idea, and transforming it into something useful for the life of millions.