Fever Pitch! New Yorkers Go Starry-Eyed for Start-Ups
“I can’t tell you the whole idea.” The Internet entrepreneur on the other end of the phone sounded panicky. “It’s going to sound ludicrous and ambitious, more ludicrous and ambitious than most.” The...
View ArticleLarry Summers Was Onto the Winklevei the Moment He Saw Their Suits
What not to wear. Former Harvard University president Larry Summers gave the audience at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference the real back story on a familiar scene from The Social Network. In Aaron...
View ArticleSteve Jobs: The Perfect Aaron Sorkin Character For Anyone But Aaron Sorkin
Word broke today that Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, A Few Good Men, The Social Network) is on the shortlist of those Sony is looking at to write the biopic of Steve Jobs. Surely, it could be like most...
View ArticleKevin Spacey Is Producing a TV Show For E! About ‘Silicon Valley’s Digital...
The usual suspect. Randi Zuckerberg isn't the only enterprising producer trying to bring Startupland to the small screen. Over the weekend, Deadline Hollywood reported that Kevin Spacey will be...
View ArticleAaron Sorkin is Officially Doing a Steve Jobs Biopic
Mr. Sorkin (flickr.com/politicalpulse) One Steve Jobs biopic isn't cool. You know what's cool? TWO Steve Jobs biopics. At least according to Hollywood. Though it's been widely-rumored since late last...
View ArticleDoomed to Forever Be Confused With Justin Timberlake, Sean Parker Laments...
(Photo: Mobypicture.com, John Perry Barlow) Poor handsome, successful millionaire Sean Parker. Not only is he doomed to forever be confused with Justin Timberlake's obnoxiously bro-ish portrayal of him...
View ArticleHollywood Might Be Mulling a Twitter Movie So Are You Happy Now, Internet?
Jack Dorsey channelling his inner movie villain. (Photo: Getty) As soon as the first juicy excerpt of Nick Bilton's Twitter creation story hit the Internet, people tweeted their little hearts out...
View ArticleHere Are Five Tech Movies and TV Shows That Came Before HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’
When it comes to tech-inspired entertainment that isn't contained within an app, pickings are surprisingly slim. The same themes -- Silicon Valley culture, Steve Jobs -- are recycled again and again,...
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