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Riot On!
2004 · Film · documentary · 78 min
Directed by Kim Finn
The year is 2000 and investors are going crazy about a new mobile phone company called Riot Entertainment. Many high profile companies, like Nokia, invest millions on this unknown firm. Two years later, when all the money has been spent and the company is bankrupt, the fun is over. What happened?
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I'll go off topic to documentaries where the hustlers did themselves -
"Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened" was made by the Fyre Fest people.
Similarly the hilarious tech failure "Riot On!" was made by themselves. The director was a pseudonym.
A bit more on topic but meta it's interesting the US military has sent historians to current engagements since WW2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_detachment
For anyone who wants to see how crazy it can get, there's a documentary called Riot On! from 2004 that follows a company that "needed to grow" because of hot money - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427783/
Highly recommend.
I highly recommend the documentary "Riot On!". Great documentary, great cinema, and great entertainment. "E-Dreams" and "Startup.com" are also very good. All of them on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0lrIi0ce5E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j847rYNo2G0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fd8pdniJZk
I haven't seen e-dreams but the documentary sounds somewhat similar to Riot On which is actually from 2004 I believe. It is about a company called Riot Entertainment that took in millions in funding from a bunch of high profile sources, made a ton of fairly dubious decisions before imploding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0lrIi0ce5E
I though 'Riot On!' was funny - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427783/combined
It was funny to see the movie "Riot On!" on the list about the first start up I worked for. Here's the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQwoLYcbVmg
Riot on (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427783/) is not from Silicon Valley, but a fascinating story about the Finish dot-com company Riot-E. "The company was such a spectacular failure that it was the subject of the award winning documentary Riot On!."
Riot On - a very entertaining and well produced story of dotcom bubble madness http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427783/
Riot On! is quite an entertaining documentary. About a Finnish mobile startup with incompetent founders + tons of investor money to burn (and burn they did!). T
Riot on!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427783/
There was an entertaining documentary made a few years ago about a Finnish mobile game startup called Riot-E. It had little in the way of your actual product, but burned through hundreds of millions in bigco funding with a whole host of extravagances before, you guessed it, crashing spectacularly.
Riot On!: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427783/