Forget tech moguls like Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos, let the wisdom of fictional movie characters Jerry Maguire and Charles Foster Kane inspire your startup journey
Cinema maintains a fascination with tales of entrepreneurship, where people strive to achieve success through their sheer enterprise and grit. Interest in these stories is now so great that we have witnessed a recent rising trend in the creation of “corporate biopics”, dramatised retellings of real-life businesses.
Arguably kickstarted by The Social Network in 2010, we’ve since seen many entries in the cinematic subgenre, including The Wolf of Wall Street, Joy, Steve Jobs, The Founder, Blackberry, Tetris, Air, and more recently The Beanie Bubble in 2023, just to name a few. While there is enjoyable intrigue to be found in these “based on a true story” origin tales, they are often dramatised and…
