The bigwigs at movie / TV studios and those pull the strings at major cyclosis services are betting large that we ’re all remaining enthrall by the stories of failed technical school startup and cozenage . This past twelvemonth , we ’ve seen a slew of docudrama focus around people making money off other people by skirt law and ordinance . you’re able to thumb from Netflix to Hulu to Showtime and find an instance of Hollywood taking a real - life story of hubris and rapacity and consecrate it operatic overtones .
Perhaps it ’s more to do with today ’s startup environment , but there sure seems to be quite a few hot takes out there about how tech companies are both bamboozling and are being bamboozled .
Taking cues from popular nonfiction book and podcasts , we now have show like WeCrashed , The Dropout , and Inventing Anna that all have similar themes and style . Even as each focuses on the founders and scammers eventual downfall , we ’re supposed to feel like these founders ’ ideology could never really last . Though of course that disregard how even the worst scammers of just a few decades ago never truly get out us . They remain to tempt the outer space , just with less pizazz than they once might have had .
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Just wait until the current docu - picture catch up to the current crypto craze , where NFT projects overlook like fly ball and so many false - start labor have consort away with masses ’ moneythe speech “ rug drag ” or “ rugged ” have become common idiom . As Dr. Brown put it “ You ’re gon na see some serious shit . ”
In no particular order , here ’s a summation of the top show and pic from the start of this year depicting 2000 to 2010 - era startup scandals and other scam , as well as a few movies from the last decennium to hammer home that we ’re in all likelihood not going to stop seeing examples of delusion and avaritia for a while now .
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