Take one intense founder figure with a Messiah complex (who may or may not wear shoes). Add a seemingly game-changing idea that’s almost certainly too good to be true and a board of self-deluding investors with more money than sense, throw in some ripped-from-the-headlines scandal and you have the makings of a buzzy TV project.
Over a decade after David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin tackled Facebook’s origins in The Social Network, start-up stories are more in demand than ever with filmmakers and TV producers, in part thanks to the streaming boom driven by big tech (or tech-adjacent) companies like Apple, Amazon and Netflix.
