Something Ventured
2011 · 84 MIN · IMDB 7.0 · 813 VOTES · DIR. Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
Overview
Apple. Intel. Genentech. Atari. Google. Cisco. Stratospheric successes with high stakes all around. Behind some of the world's most revolutionary companies are a handful of men who (through timing, foresight, a keen ability to size up other people, and a lot of luck) saw opportunity where others did not: these are the original venture capitalists. All were backing and building companies before the term 'venture capital' had been coined: companies that led to the birth of biotechnology and the spectacular growth in microprocessors, personal computers and the web. SOMETHING VENTURED uncovers the ups and downs of the building of some of the greatest companies of the twentieth century, and the hidden dramas behind some of the most famous names in business.
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00:00:03 I was in my laboratory...
00:03:44 You gotta be lucky.
00:06:44 [Pencil Scratching, Scribbling]
00:09:49 Give us 10 minutes, and we would make up our mind as to whether we wanted...
00:12:51 was going to be something special.
00:16:33 [Narrator] Intel opened its doors in July of'68
00:19:50 So that's how I got in the venture business.
00:22:42 And I'll mention them, even though they were very embarrassing.
00:26:04 We tried to raise venture capital. I made a trip back east.
00:29:31 I said, "I don't need to go to a business school for what I'm gonna do."
00:32:28 Nolan had no basis for a bank to be comfortable.
00:35:42 One of our investors was a very big shareholder of Sears.
00:39:01 I scrambled to get into a degree where I thought I could earn a living
00:42:01 ♪ So give me muh, uh-huh, mo-mo-money ♪♪
00:45:54 How do you know that you've done it? How do you test?
00:49:12 [Fades] The next step, of course-
00:53:26 I said, "Okay." 'Cause that's what I did on Mondays.
00:56:49 and put his bare feet up on the- on the table.
01:00:16 So, we started funding it.
01:03:31 You know, I was nervous about access to capital.
01:07:07 We tried from the very beginning to-to get funding.
01:09:47 vice president of engineering deck the sales vice president in my office!
01:13:22 I-You know, I think I have a, you know, a place in- in the company
01:17:56 you know, the Internet.