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Riot On Documentary (2002)

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A documentary chronicling the rapid rise and spectacular collapse of the Finnish dot-com startup Riot Entertainment.

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What people say. Highly recommended as an entertaining and cautionary tale about the insanity of venture capital funding during the dot-com boom.

virgulinoon Hacker News • Recommends

On “The History of the Dot Com Era”

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: link to this video link link
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mvdwoordon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Bolt announces layoffs”

Interesting and funny documentary from the dot com boom era in a finish company, riot entertainment. Great watch on the insanity of VC funding and growth. link to this video
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andyjdavison Hacker News • Mentions

On “Steve Blank: 'VCs Won't Admit They're in a Ponzi Scheme'”

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. link to this video
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aaron695on Hacker News • Mentions

On “U.S. Marshals Service online auction – Fyre festival fraud scheme”

They were pretty close to a billion $ From the docos the interesting thing is they seemed like they almost would have became Cameo. Just like Riot-E also almost became 100 millionaires through their outrageous fake it till you make it link to this video (NSFW)
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