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I, George Walker Bush,
do solemnly swear

that I will faithfully
execute the office

of President of the United States
and will to the best of

my ability preserve, protect,
and defend the Constitution.

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman
caused quite a stir

on Monday when they announced
plans to separate.

The couple explained the
split was caused

by careers that frequently
keep them apart.

The market plunge was sharp and swift.

The Nasdaq was bloody,
too, closing below 2

,000 for the first time in
more than two years.

Our 40th president, Ronald Reagan,
born February 6, 1911,

celebrated his birthday quietly today
at his home in Los Angeles.

Well, the tech sector took
yet another beating this

week, but there were a few
winners, most notably

Landshark, whose stock hit a record
high for the fourth straight day.

In just a few minutes, we'll talk
to Landshark CEO Tom Sterling.

But in the meantime, Mark
Lee, if you would,

tell us just a little bit
about this company.

This is an amazing story
we're seeing here, Ron.

At a time when the tech
sector has been in

virtual freefall, here's
a company that's been

public for four days, and it's already
up an astounding 500%.

Indeed it has, and we want to talk
to Landshark CEO Tom Sterling.

Tom, are you with us?

Can you hear us? Yeah, I'm here.
Well, congratulations.

Thanks for joining us.

Appreciate you coming by today.

Thank you for having me.
All right, let me ask

you, this is a very difficult
market environment.

Can Landshark get the
traction it needs?

I think you're missing the point, Ron.

I mean, traction really isn't the issue,
because Landshark is not a vehicle.

Landshark is the road itself.

You know, we've seen startups
like this one before.

They come out strong, they're delisted
before they're even at a lockup.

And that has got to be
very, very tough.

Well, that's just business, Ron.

That's what separates the
men from the boys.

-Indeed it is.
-Tom, congratulations.

We appreciate you coming by.

Thanks for being with us today.

Absolutely.

Anytime.

Well, market confidence in Landshark
has been extraordinarily high.

The real question is, where will these
guys be six months from now?

We'll be right here.

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She's totally a mess, Jeff.

I am so sorry you guys, um, Tom is
not much of a morning person.

Help you? I'm more skinny,
perhaps, Sharma.

I see you've met my brother
Joshua, the

creative genius behind
our little venture.

Mm-hmm.

Brad, Jonathan, we've met, of course.

-And you are?
-Mason Neuberger.

Nice to meet you.

So...

you're a Unisol.

We're a Landshark. Let's make money.

We were, uh...

We expected a proposal.

Okay, um, there's been
a miscommunication.

We apologize, but I think what
Tom and I are saying...

We are who we are.

The brand speaks for itself.

Who else are you talking to?

Who are you meeting with?

Well, actually...

I don't see how that's relevant.

Nobody, right?

I mean, nobody of any weight.

Because nobody does what we do.

You know it, I know it,
so let's cut the shit.

Without a proposal, without something
to take back, well, you can

understand, it's gonna be pretty hard
for us to sell this upstairs.

Well, maybe next time we should
be meeting with upstairs.

Big words for an M.O.P.

Your lock-up is what?

Standard 180.

He's out September 14th.

So you got four weeks,
which, according to

the SEC, means you can't
buy, you can't sell.

All your millions, it's all on paper.

Okay, guys, um...

Before we get all heated up...

You want a portal play?

Anybody can give you a portal play,
any asshole in an air-on chair.

He's a fucking portal.

That's so third quarter 99.

You want bleeding edge,
mission critical,

cross-platform, robust, scalable
architectures?

Well, duh.

That's what everybody wants.

What you want is E.

Pure E.

Not e-commerce, not e-business.

Not click and mortar,
anything but that.

-E.
-Not old, not tired, not stepped on.

Not one gram of E in ten
grams of baby laxative.

Pure E.

Josh knows E.

I know E.

That's what Landshark does.

And somehow when E changes, we're there
first on the shore, beckoning.

Is there anyone who can aggregate
the way we can?

I don't think so, because if
there was, I'd be there.

But I'm here.

And that's why you invited me here.

You invited me here because
you want in.

Okay.

Fine.

So let's talk numbers.

Our CFO, as you know, is
Dylan Gottzertrunk.

Keep Dylan a call, make him an offer.

We'll see if we can accommodate you.

Don't you ever fuckin' apologize
ever fuckin' again.

That's not what we do.

Well, I'm so sorry.

Hop in.

Oh, no, I-I told Mo I'd stop home first
just to make sure she's okay.

I'll give you a ride.

That's okay. I'll see you
back at the office.

What?

Did you hear?

Pseudo.com.

How many they dump?

60, maybe 70 out of 100.

Everyone but the biz devs.

Content shop.

Who do I have?

Schwartzbaum, who called twice.

Andrew Goldman.

Jonathan Gray.

Fuck him.

Laura Wormack, twice.

Kowalski.

Somebody's sitting in my chair.

Don't get all poppy there on me, Tom.

Just don't.

You blew them off.

You had to blow them off, didn't you?

I just did my thing, Mel.

I don't tell you how to do your thing.

I won't have a thing if you keep on

blowing off the people who
are trying to hire us.

You've got Snowmark to worry about.

Our plate is full. Our
plate is not full.

Snowmark is three months late.

We need that account, Tom.

-We need the money.
-Take it, then.

-You want the money?
-Take it.

They'll call Dylan, and when
they do, take their money.

They'll call.

Trust me. You'll see.
Listen to me, Tom.

I've got a bazillion shares of Landshark
I can't do anything with.

28 days, Mel.

We come out of lockup in four weeks.

Four weeks from now,
if we don't get any

cash coming in, we're going
to be underwater.

We IPO'd at 12, shot up to 60.

Last week, we were at 7.

You want to know where we are now?

Two and one-eighth. Oh, we
better get to work then.

Can I have my chair back, please?

Hey.

Yeah, you can put it there.

Can you get me a burp pad, please?

Um...

You know what, Josh?

You need to help me unpack this shit.

I can't do it by myself.

I know. I'm sorry. I'll help
you unpack tomorrow.

-I promise.
-I'll do so if I can.

I can't stay very long.

Is there anything I can
do before I leave?

You can give me a kiss.

I...

-It's good.
-He, uh, fell asleep.

Do you want to hold him?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Do you want your hot chocolate?

Yeah, I'll get it in a sec.

What do you mean, I can't?

I'm just saying. What you're
saying isn't can't.

What you're saying is I shouldn't.

And there's a world of
difference, though.

Do what you want. If you want the
ghost name, go ahead and get it.

I mean, why do you even ask me?

I just want the numbers. Not the moralizing,
not the more than I can afford.

Just the numbers.

Maintenance?

With fences? With everything.
A million a month.

Give or take, but a million a month.

And what does it cost
not to lease the G5?

Did you ever think about that?

Did you ever take that into account?

OK. You're looking at me like,
oh, what does this asshole

think, that the bottom never fell
out like July never happened?

Well, of course it happened,
all right?

Abby Cohn was like, this is
great, this is great.

And then she was like,
this is overvalued.

But what the fuck, Dill?

What the fuck does that
have to do with us?

It's about valuations, huh?

Ellison has a Gulfstream.

Case has a Gulfstream.

Ross has a Gulfstream.

Bezos has a Gulfstream.

Fucking Bezos.

The cost of not having one is the cost
of saying to the world that Tom?

Tom's just not in that league.

And what does that cost?

A fuck of a lot more than
a million a month.

A million a month can be leveraged.

Being looked at as B-list?

Can't.

Can't.

We're past that point, Tom.

I was right about Unisalt, wasn't I?

They called just like
I said they would.

You and Melanie just have to
have a little bit of faith.

And this will take more than
a smoke and mirrors.

You're not a part of the
solution, Dillard.

You're part of the problem.

Am I fired?

Just find a way to do it.

Arbitrage, debt swap, I don't care.

But you want to know something?

You're going to like it.

You're going to like riding in it.

You're going to call me,
and you're going to

say, hey, I'm going to take
the family to Hawaii.

What do you got, two kids?

Three. I'm going to take
the wife and three kids

to Hawaii, and I'm going to
say, what, this weekend?

-That's cool.
-Why don't you take the G?

And I'll tell you this.

I promise you this.

When you do, once you do, Dil, you're

-Never mind.
-Just get it.

Hey.

Sarah?

What are you doing here?

Tom.

Hi.

Hey, Dylan.

Hi, Sarah.

When did you get back in town?

Um, it's just a couple of weeks ago.

I'm taking off, Tom.

I gotta get home.

Nice seeing you again, Sarah.

Welcome back.

Thanks, Dylan. Nice to
see you too, yeah?

Yeah.

I was just talking to Keith about
picking up a couple of shifts.

See you back then?

Yeah.

Classes start next month, so...

Where you living?

Same place.

How's your brother?

Josh is good.

Yeah, he's good.

Good.

Well, tell him I said hello.

Bye.

I don't know.

What was that?

So what do you want to do tonight?

Taxi!

Good night.

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70% of Americans disapprove of President
Bush taking a 30-day working vacation.

If the President returns
on Labor Day, he

will tie a modern record
held by Richard Nixon.

Which celebrities are hitting
the headlines?

alcohol addiction in Malibu
for 30 days of treatment.

His public defense, he believes, a fuller
life awaits him without alcohol.

to be bitter about her break
up with Tom Cruise.

Those who die during this
crisis, for whatever

cause, come back to life
to seek human victims.

Unless their bodies are
first disposed of.

Our news cameras...

This one conducted by Sharon...

Thank you.

Josh?

-Yeah?
-I'm starving right now.

What are you doing?

I thought you were supposed
to be unpacking.

I'm totally unpacking.

Do you want to order some food?

Hey Tom, do you think about what size
you want to send to your parents?

What the fuck are these
two doing here?

Hey, what are these doing here?

Come on, come on, come
on, get them out!

Big ones, little ones, let's go!

They don't do much good
sitting here, do they?

Hey, Tom, Charlie Corwin.

Livemusicchannel.com? Yeah,
yeah. Fuck that guy.

So, what, a little one, or...?

No, he's through, he's finished.

-Fuck him.
-Don't give him shit.

You know what?

Give him a little one, what the fuck.

Because I'm hungry, I was
going to go and get

something for me and hang down
the street if you want me to.

Dylan, nice couche.

We got problems, Tom.

Joshua's on his way.

Oh, this is important.

Well, let's get started without him.

Josh, so what's all the excitement?

Snow Mark shit the bed.

They haven't filed yet.

The word is out.

And Uniswap pulled their offer.

So where does that put us?

The Nasdaq was down 87 points at
opening, and we're doing worse.

We're below dollar.

Josh.

So what are our options?

Cutbacks, layoffs, but then there's
the whole perception thing.

Rumors, the sniping, the downward
spiral could sink us.

So we're probably looking at
another round of financing.

We got an offer from Bart and Ogilvy.

What's the catch?

Second-round financing
isn't that easy.

They'll pay market value, but they're
gonna want a big piece.

How much do we have to give up?

Percentage, Dillon.

What percentage are we going
to have to give up?

Like 50.

So Josh and I, we start this company.

No, we invent this company,
and we bring you two in,

and we give you contracts,
which we don't even have.

And now you want to let some moneybag
fuck us up the ass?

You know, a better time
to do this might

have been four months ago,
Dil, before July.

Things have changed.

So we lose half our company.

We get greeked up the ass by
Barton fucking Ogilvy?

This is no time to be proud, Tom.

No, that's not the play.

That's not the way we're gonna do it.

I'll cash-flow the company
myself if I have to.

You're in no position to do that.

You're leveraged to the hilt.

I'll find the fucking money.

You're broke, Tom.

Get the fuck out of my office, Steel.

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I just wanted to talk.

You know, someplace away
from the office?

Yeah.

Can I get an X-Ball?

Take the last one.

So some shit's been going down.

It's complicated, but I've been
thinking about your future.

Oh, nice for me.

Okay, I know you've always
been smarter than me.

That's not what's at issue here.

At issue?

What, are we at a court of law?

Why are you telling me this?

I want to let you in on this.

It's an opportunity.

It's not a Landstrike thing.

It's a Brothers thing.

It's a Tom and Josh thing.

-All right.
-What do you want from me?

You've always been smarter than me.

You know, the squirrel
and the whatever.

You were the one who was prudent.

Tom, what do you want?

Just some working capital.

How much just some working capital?

Just enough to get us through lock-up.

Just enough to get us
to the other side.

Wait, you...

I'm going to go ahead and put myself
on the hook, personally.

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Joshua, you know, when you said thinking
about your future, I shouldn't know.

When Tom says thinking about your future,
you know what that means?

It means what can I screw
you out of today?

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, you got me all wrong, man.

Oh, no, I don't think so.

You know what?

You're a great designer, man.

You're the best, but this is business.

-This is money.
-This is mine.

Hey, you remember when it was
just me and you and we

were moving into our first place,
the one on Mott Street?

Why do you always bring this up?

You always bring this up. And I said
we were gonna need 15 phone

lines, and you laughed, and you went
down to 9X, and they said it was

gonna cost $110 a line, plus a deposit,
plus it was gonna take five weeks.

Please, why do you always
tell this story?

Yeah, and you were gonna wait,
and you were gonna pay it.

And I went down there, and they installed
them the next day and for free.

Wow.

I know money, man.

And maybe the NASDAQ is up, maybe
the NASDAQ is down, but if we

could just make it from here to there,
if we could just make it

through this lockup these next few
weeks, then there's a fucking

pile of money, man, just
waiting for us,

a mountain of it, and
we're gonna eat it.

Around everybody else,
I got a front, okay?

But with you, I can tell you
when I'm in trouble.

And we're in trouble, and you gotta

believe me when I say that
we're in trouble.

And we can make it through
this, but...

I need your help.

You gotta trust me.

All right, OK.

You know, just because I'm smart
doesn't mean I'm stupid, Tommy.

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Is there anything I can do?

It's all done.

I'll open the wine.

There's wine open already.

This is a great bottle.

You'll like it. It's a Bâtard
Montrachet Grand Cru, 1998.

Am I supposed to be impressed?

It's really good, Dad.

Well, then, perhaps we should save
it for a special occasion.

And so they asked me to speak
at E-Symposium, which

is quite an honor, because
it's considered the most

important North American conference
on new technology.

What do you actually do, Tom?

Excuse me?

You.

Land shark.

What do you do?

-David.
-I'm serious.

I was there last Friday.

Where was I? Well, how would
I know where was I?

Dropped something off
for Joshua, and...

You know what I saw?

Oreos.

You know me, Tom.

I see it, I say it.

What I saw was a whole
bunch of kids, bright

young kids, and they were
all just sitting around.

When they got tired of sitting,
which was more often than

not, they'd get up and go to the
kitchen and eat some Oreos.

Then they'd go back to their desk, cute
little desk from Ikea, am I correct?

And they'd play solitaire.

Solitaire on the computers.

Now, you correct me if I'm wrong.

It's a long day, I give you that.

Ten in the morning till ten at night.

Seven days a week.

But...

Why the hell would somebody
give you a million

dollars just to watch you sit
around and eat some Oreos?

Dad, add some zeros.

Add two zeros, and that's what
we're talking about.

Just because you take your failure
and call it success

doesn't mean that you can take my
success and call it failure.

Tom. Mom, I'm saying something to
Dad, and I'm not finished yet.

Tom, I do not like where
this is going.

Mom, I was saying something,
and I wasn't finished.

Do you want to hear what
I have to say?

Do you want to fucking hear
what I have to say?

He just does not get it.

What did you want?

You wanted to change the
world, stop the war.

Poetry must be made by all, right?

Don't fucking deny it.

I've seen the bookshelves.
I grew up with them.

Cinder blocks,-by-fours, and
five copies of Soul on Ice.

You wanted to change the world,
and what did you settle for?

Tenure?

You wanted to change the world?

Well, we're changing it. Tiananmen
Square, that was the fax machine.

Think what we'll have now
that we have the web.

Your guy, what's his name?

The guy that you did the seminar on?

McLuhan, Global Village, right?

Well, we're making it.

We're out there making it
every day while you

puff up all smug and proud
and self-satisfied.

And then it's like, go tell the maid
to dust the Godard posters.

I'm leaving now.

No, Mom, I'm leaving.

Thank you.

Hi.

Hi.

Vaguely familiar. Have we met before?

I don't think so.

Don't, Tom.

I've got to work.

When do you get out of here?

Do you mind if I wait?

It's a free country.

Maybe we can get a bite to
eat when you're finished.

I'm broke.

I'll take a number 5 and a number
8, and he'll have it.

Come on, Sarah.

Let me take you someplace nice.

The number 11.

Wasn't that the one you used to get?

The bubba ganoush platter, right?

Just this once.

Yeah, he'll take the number
11 and two Cokes, please.

-Thank you.
-Thank you.

So, how are you?

How have you been?

Good, yeah.

Everything's good.

Um, work is good.

My truck is doing great, so...

Work is great.

And how's everything else?

Is there something else?

How are your parents?

How about you?

How was Barcelona?

Oh, it was amazing, incredible.

I mean, the people and the culture
and the architecture.

I mean, it was just...

it was fantastic.

And the program was really great, too.

And I got to stay on through the
end of July as an apprentice.

Sarah, what happened with us?

Come on, Tom, don't.

I was, um, I was working
for this firm that was

designing, like, this massive
public housing project.

But, like, with these really
beautiful structures.

And, um, and they were incorporating all
of these sustainable design concepts.

Stop it, Tom.

Stop what?

You're doing that thing.

What thing?

You know what you're doing.

So thank you for dinner.

It was, um...

It's good to see you it's
good to see you too

I missed you.

Sir.

What is this?

It's nice to see you.

Thank you for a lovely evening.

Is that really what this is?

I can't.

-Okay.
-Let's just end it.

It's okay.

I get it.

I'm OK.

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Hey man.

Hey!

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What's up?

What you all looking at?

What's so funny? We were studying
our screensaver.

It's really interesting.

I like the logo.

Yeah, we all like our logo.

Yeah, fuck y'all.

Fuck company?

You guys are wasting your
time on fuck company?

You're wasting your company time on...

They have this countdown.

Our capitalization, our outflows.

Burn rate.

How many days till the
whole run's out?

Yeah, what do they say?

Three weeks.

-Fuck that noise.
-Come on.

Get back to work.

Get back to work.

Come on, come on, come on!

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Car's here, Tom.

Car?

Car to the center.

Car as in town car.

He forgot.

I bet you he forgot.

Forgot what?

The e-symposium.

That's next week.

This is next week.

And I'm gonna assume, Tom, that
the reason you look like

shit is because you were up all
night working on your speech.

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In 1997, Landshark was two brothers in a
dirty old office down in the Bowery.

Today, hundreds of employees
in eight cities.

Don't forget to mention me.

Us.

You won't fuck up now, will you?

The stock's a little bit
down, but they're not.

While other companies are laying people
off, they're actually hiring.

You know the man I'm
about to introduce?

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Thank you, Jason.

Really?

It's great to be here We get
invited to these things

all the time, but we never go
but This one is special

Because of you Because of Jason
Because the free shrimp

Shrimp pigs in a blanket Those tiny little
caviar things on little crackers

But you didn't come here
to hear me talk

about snacks in the green room,
you came because...

We are at the forefront
of a revolution.

a revolution in technology,
but also a revolution...

You probably know what I was going
to say, so fuck that shit.

What I mean is, if I say what you
already know I'm going to say,

then it's like the hamster scurries
and scurries and the wheel

spins, and at the end of the day, you know,
we're all still in the cage, right?

So, instead of that prepared shit, I'm

just going to tell you
what's in my heart.

You know what the problem
is with, uh...

with... I-I don't even
know what to call it.

With-with our thing?

The problem is, what are we doing?

Are we making the world a less
sucky place or more sucky?

How are we, every day, impacting
the suckage?

My mom and dad were right.

It pains me to say it, but they
were right when they said

that those that make half a revolution
only dig their own grave.

Is that what we're making here?

Half a revolution?

What the net is supposed
to do, what new

broadband is supposed
to do, what digital

whatever is supposed to do is increase
freedom, is increase choice.

But what are we offering
in the way of choice?

AOL or Earthlink?

Gates or Ellison?

Miller Lite or Coors?

Gore or Bush?

B2B or not B2B?

We make money.

Tons of it.

We help big, greedy advertising
agencies sell the useless

products of massive, morally corrupt
multinational corporations.

We advise them on how to
aggregate eyeballs.

Have you ever seen the beginning
of She-Anne Andalou?

You know, with the eyeball
and the straight razor?

Because, I mean, pretty much
that's what we do.

Fuck you, Tom.

Okay, okay, fuck me.

Fuck me.

But what I'm telling you is the
truth, and you know it.

Click-through is over.

Cross-platform is over.

I-whatever is over.

Disintermediation is way over.

Startup is over.

Branding is over.

Convergence is so over.

Dot-com and everything
it stands for, over.

So what's left?

What's left is what we do.

What's left is those people who are
very, very good at what we do.

You all know people.

They're in your shop.

Who are amazing designers.

Writers in a language that's being
invented before our eyes.

I grew up with one.

My brother Joshua.

I can I can charm a VC well
on a good day I can

charm a VC but Joshua

Joshua can imagine Joshua

can make something where yesterday
there was nothing

And that makes all the difference,
doesn't it?

Thank you.

Thank you, and enjoy your lunch.

Tom, I've got to take off.

Have a drink with me first.

Just one.

Oh, yeah, no, I can't.

Marella called.

I've got to...

-Is everything okay?
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Jacob's just...

he's having a tough time, you know.

He's still colicky, so...

What did you think of the speech?

It was good.

It was good.

It was nice.

Thanks.

Thank you.

We really pulled one out, Tom.

I mean, I was a little worried there
for a moment, but we pulled it out.

I was thinking maybe we could just
do something quiet, like, um...

like maybe I could cook dinner, and we could
just hang out and talk, you know?

Because I had a really good time
seeing you the other night.

And, uh...

So just, uh, give me a call back
when you get this, okay?

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Hey.

Hey, yourself.

Holy shit!

You did it!

Of course I did it.

I didn't think you would.

What do you mean?

I don't know.

I just, um...

I just thought you were humoring me.

Are you kidding me?

I love it.

I switched over here when they were

working on it because the
contractor screwed me.

I have pictures.

You were totally right about
opening this up.

Let's in the light.

So do you like it?

It's the...

it's the first thing that I designed that's
actually been, you know, realized.

That's the, um, do you want some wine?

I made rabbit.

You're still a vegetarian, are you?

I'm just kidding, I made the sea bass.

You still eat fish, right?

Seems a little hypocritical,
though, I mean, like, this

one's all cute and furry, so
I'm not gonna eat this one.

It's against my belief
system, but that

one, I'll make a little exception
for that one.

But, I mean, fish have
feelings, too, right?

Sue, can you explain the
logic of that to me?

Because I...

I just don't understand.

I'm sorry, were you actually
saying something?

I was saying you like the
rabbit, remember?

You remember the time with
Moe, my brother.

Yes, I do.

You're a dick.

-Wait.
-How is it my fault?

Because you could have told me you
could have said something.

I didn't have time. You just gobbled that
shit right up I thought it was tofu.

I had no idea it was a
little bunny rabbit.

You were like damn.

This is some tasty tofu

-Hypocrite.
-Prick.

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What else?

That's new.

Work stuff really.

Just dealing with Landshark.

And it's going well?

Yeah.

You happy?

Yeah, of course, I mean.

It must be nice to get to
work with Josh, right?

And everything seems like
it's going really well.

Do you know, last spring,
I was on a train to

Madrid, and someone left
a magazine on the seat,

and I looked over, and there
was your face on the cover.

-Wired.
-I hated that picture.

I looked like a total douchebag.

Yeah, you did, but the other...

-I wasn't your...
-Oh, come on.

You were doing your picture face
with your lips all pouty.

You looked totally gay.

Ha, ha, ha.

The point is the article.

I mean, holy shit.

You did it.

All those conversations that we
had, and I remember you saying

that there's no second best in what
you and Josh were planning.

No second best? I never said that.

That's the cheesiest thing
I've ever heard.

I would never say anything
that cheesy.

That is exactly what you said, and you'd
totally say something that cheesy.

But that's what I love about you.

You're always with the absolutes.

You did it, Tom.

I'm really happy for you.

It's a cover-up.

Tell me how it feels.

It's not what you think
it is, believe me.

Well, tell me what it isn't.

Things have changed since that
article was written.

If I could make...

Five months ago when that was written,
Josh and I were, uh...

On March 14th, our combined net
worth hit $387 million.

But now we're, uh, worth about
one one-hundredth of

that, and Landshark has burned
through $95 million in

seed money, and we have virtually
no revenue to speak of, so...

Basically, we're fucked.

But hey, it was fun while it lasted.

You know, let's not talk
about Landshark.

I'm sure everything's
going to be fine.

What about you?

What have you been working on?

It's like a house that
I designed and it's

in a show and it's opening
tomorrow night.

A house?

Yeah, I mean, just like
a little house.

Sounds great.

I love a little house.
It's from last year.

It's like drawings and a model, but I think
it came out really well, actually.

I want to see it.

Okay, tomorrow night, five to
seven, there's a reception.

Five o'clock.

I'll be there.

I should go.

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Barton Oakley was here
before you were born.

Very...

...reticulate.

talk price.

Some of my clients have
already discussed it

with Mr. Sterling directly,
but I can tell you

that they're very interested
in hearing your proposal.

Oh, maybe you want to talk this
over and get back to me.

Just call my office by lunchtime.

But as I said before, if you're not prepared
to offer seats on the board,

I just want to be clear on
that so we're all on

the same page and we're not
wasting anyone's time.

We'll be there.

Tomorrow morning, 9am, we'll be there.

Thank you.

How we doing on that Gulfstream deal?

I'll talk to him

I'll talk to Josh.

Have you seen my brother

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Hey, if you're gonna see Josh...

Hey, Josh.

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Oh, hey, Tom, you just
missed your brother.

Did you tell him I wanted
to talk to him?

Yeah, I did.

Check that shit out.

Looks like a big pita.

It's totally absurd, though.

Your house is the best one by far.

Blows these other ones away.

-Please speak.
-Please.

I didn't miss a day.

It's five to seven.

I told you.

I'm just gonna hang out
with my friends.

Come on, don't be mad.

I'm not.

It's my fault.

I just thought maybe you
might have changed.

I was hoping that...

Take care of yourself, Tom.

Okay?

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We need to watch out because
usually when he

pees his pants, that's when
I pee my pants too.

How's your brother?

Tom?

Um, well, he's Tom.

I don't know.

My special messenger weighs a ton.

It's from Tom, Dad.

I'm gonna go ahead and open it up.

From your friends at Landshark, wishing
you the gift of enlightenment.

The gift of enlightenment.

Enlightenment.

Hard to beat.

Oh, it is.

Tom?

How you doing?

We're just taking off, so...

Uh, you know what, Josh?

Why don't you stay? And
I'll take Jake.

-No, no.
-I think we can, uh...

I think we should go home.

No, really.

Um, we'll hop in a cab.

All right, everybody.

Okay.

Well, I guess I'll be back.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Mwah.

I'm just gonna get Mark here.

I said some words.

Last time I was here,
I said some words.

And I said them in anger.

And sometimes anger may not be the

best way to say some things.

I think, David, he's
apologizing to you.

Well, I'd need my Dakota ring
to figure that one out.

Cut him some slack.

You want the words, I'll say them.

I'm sorry, I apologize, my bad.

Thank you, Tom.

I know how hard that was for you.

And I just want to say that...

-It's okay, Mom. It's okay.
-It's okay.

Oh, I also want to say thank you.

Thank you for the, um...

Great.

The crate and what was in it.

I'm glad you all liked it.

How big is it then?

There it is What's like this big?

Okay big like 18 inches Yeah, like a

foot and a half Okay, so not

three feet Not three feet, where would
we put a three-foot Buddha exactly?

No, that's see that's not that's not my
point That's beside the fucking point.

You see the point is that Tom?

Doesn't give presents.

Okay, everybody gives presents
Tom doesn't because it's so

crass, you know, it's so uh, it's
so third quarter 99 right

so Tom Instead of giving presents
to celebrate Landshark to

celebrate coming out of lockup
he gives you But of course

Tom being Tom there's got to
be an order, you know A

hierarchy of some sort because how do you
know you're in if there's no out?

right so a list Buddha and B

list Buddha All right, Tom

And who are you guys Oh just as mom

just as his dad so B list

I should go.

Joshua, can I give you a lift?

Oh, I'll get a cab.

Come on, let's take a walk.

Come on, Josh.

All right, what do you want?

I don't want anything.

Well, what are we doing?

-Why are we here?
-What is this?

A conversation.

Conversation.

down a road, and at the
end of that road...

Joshua, will you journal
your shares over to me?

Just for a day. Just for a week.

Just sign this piece of paper, and
everything will be cool, bro.

Is that...

I just want to talk, Josh.

I just want to hang.

You understand the position
I'm in, right?

I'm in the same position.

Not really.

See, for you, this is all
a game or something.

But for me, it's different, because I've
got Moe and Jake to think about.

I can't afford to be Cavalier.

I've got a fucking baby.

I just bought an apartment.

I've got a mortgage to pay.

And I know that all seems square to
you, but it's my fucking life.

Look, what you said at
E-Symposium about me

and about what I do, that
was really sweet, Tom.

It really was.

But we had a deal.

I do my thing, you do yours, right?

Well, I did my thing.

And you?

I don't know.

I mean, you talk a good game.

You...you understand money.

You understand business a whole
lot better than I do.

But where's it gotten you?

Where's it gotten us?

I trusted you, Tom.

It doesn't work, Josh.

What do you mean?

Landshark, as a business
model, it doesn't work.

What are you talking about?

The numbers don't add up.

At least not the way we
expected them to.

Oh, fuck you.

You're so full of shit.

I know what you think of me, Joshua.

I know that you think that I'm
taking advantage of you.

I know that you don't respect
me, but you tell

me, you tell me how what
you do, what Landshark

does, could possibly make money
as a business right now.

You can say whatever you want about
me, but I believed in your idea.

I believed in you.

But the financial projections that we made,
they were like three years off.

The technology isn't there.

So, our market, it doesn't
fucking exist.

That's not my fault.

I'm not saying that it is.

It's just the fucking reality
of our situation.

We're no different from any
of these dot-coms, Josh.

It's all hype. And where the fuck do
you think that hype comes from?

You're right, I spent a lot
of money on stupid shit.

But that's what kept us going.

Fumes.

That's what Landshark runs on.

I still believe in Landshark.

And in three, maybe four years, but
we're not gonna last that long.

We're not gonna last three weeks if we
don't make this deal work tomorrow.

And I need your help.

I need your permission.

Josh, just don't even.

So it was just me and Josh, still living
at home if you can believe that.

I mean, Josh was.

So we sat down after dinner.

Nancy and David were up
at Lincoln Center.

And we were like, we can do this.

I mean, I was like, we can do this.

Together we can do this.

And Joshua just sort of woke up.

Right before my eyes with the parents
up at Ellis Tully Hall.

He just sort of woke up and
he said, of course we can.

And so, we get this place
on the Bowery.

I mean, not the new Bowery.

It's the old Bowery.

We had rats, big fucking
rats the size of cats.

I swear it.

We made our clients out at restaurants
for lunch because we

couldn't bring them back to the office
because there wasn't an office.

I mean, not really. Can
I just get a water?

And this first guy, his
name was Goldblatt.

He was like, what can you do?

And I was like, 1.0% reach,
$750 uniques.

And he's just, when can you get it up?

And I don't hesitate.

I don't even sweat. I say, week
after next, but it's going to

cost you another $25 to squeeze
you in before Hardy McNibbon.

Of course, there was
no Hardy McNibbon.

You know why people commit
to something?

Not because they want to, because ultimately,
nobody wants anything.

People commit for one reason
and for one reason only.

So some other son of a bitch
doesn't get there first.

And that...

Oh, hey, it's Banana Republic.

You know, I don't think
I like your tone.

Well, I don't think I'm selling it.

A little late for a working stiff.

What'd you get, pink-slipped?

Matter of fact, I'm with Vom Tresca.

In case you never heard of us, it's
the number-one aggregator.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember,
way back in

May, you guys had, what'd
your press release say?

First-mover advantage, meaning you were
the first guys in the niche market.

Only then came July, and guess what?

It turned out the niche didn't
really exist, did it?

So you did what everybody
like you did.

You said, we're not a niche
player, we're B2B.

As if that was gonna save your ass.

I mean, how many people did that
same exact thing that week?

No, fuck you. It's a lot more fun to
make inventory than to sell it.

A lot easier, too.

How much do you guys spend in a month,

as opposed to, you know,
how much comes in?

Or is that old-school accounting?

I said, fuck you.

I heard you the first time.

If I want to say it, I'll say it.

All night, if I want to.

Fuck you. Yeah, fuck you,
fuck you, and fuck you.

Do you know why you're even here?

Because we had a dream.

And you did what guys
like you always do.

You smelled the money.

You came down, you wanted in.

You wanted to drink the crew.

Not because you love.

Not even because you know
what you're doing.

But because this is where
the action is.

No, because somebody told you
this is where the action is.

You don't know anything about me.

Guys like you ain't got no vision.

Ain't got no passion.

Ain't got no soul.

Hey, let me ask you something.

Do all the flowers and the
fancy dinners and the

fact that he's taking cooking
lessons make up for

the fact that he's never been
able to make you come?

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Good morning, Tom.

Nice shiner.

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What happened to you?

Somebody obviously had enough.

Hope it wasn't his brother.

Did he speak to Josh?

You did talk to him, didn't you, Tom?

These guys are old school.

They're not going to fall
for the sweet talk.

I can handle this, Dylan.

Trust me.

And if they ask you about
the shortfall?

I'll let you handle it.

And if they ask about the e-symposium?

I was just shaking things up.

I was trying to inject a little
salutary controversy the

way that an oyster needs a small
bit of grit to make a pearl.

Believe me, I got this.

Mr. Barton will see you now.

Mr. Ogilvy's with him.

Shall I show you the way?

Thank you.

What a joy.

What a significant day.

The pleasure is all ours.

I'm a busy man, to be sure.

But when the opportunity presents
itself finally, to meet

my friends at Landshark, why, we
clear our decks, so to speak.

Allow me to introduce my senior
partner, Cyrus Ogilvie.

Cy, this is Miss Melanie Hanson.

It's a pleasure.

Mr. Dylan Gottschalk.

Mr. Thomas Sterling.

-E-O.

We're here today to seek a fuller
partnership, so that our

futures, our separate but
successful futures,

can be bound together.

So that our happiness can
become your happiness.

Happiness?

Dear boy, I'm more interested in ROI.

I'm offering substantial happiness.

How substantial?

Very substantial.

Forty percent.

At what price?

Market value.

Circumstances have changed over the
past few days, have they not?

That offer no longer stands.

What were you expecting to pay?

Market value does not matter, because
your stock trades by appointment.

To sell it, you need a willing buyer,
and your stock has no float.

But the real question is the board.

We'll want control.

You're kidding, right?

What do you know about the net?

What do you know about new technology?

Nothing.

Not a fucking thing.

The way people communicate, the
way people think, the very

nature of commerce is changing,
and you're scared shitless.

You don't understand it.

But you want in.

To be quite honest, Mr. Sterling,
we don't like your style.

We don't like the way you
conduct yourself.

And though you seem to have
fooled a lot of people,

we don't much like the way you
conduct your business.

And since we don't particularly
want to be in business

with you, you'd have to make it
very much worth our while.

I was in Adam's house at Harvard.

So, I made some friends.

Then Wharton.

I made a few more.

And in Southampton, where we summer.

So, on the street, you could say,
I have a lot of friends.

And they look to me for my opinion.

When I tell them, I tell
them that we've looked

at the Landshark figures and
we didn't see a future.

I don't have to say it loudly.

I have only to whisper it.

Do you understand?

By the time your lock-up
ends, you will

own 500,000 shares of delisted paper.

You would dump your entire investment
because you don't like my style?

Why?

Because I can, Mr. Sterling.

Is that a threat?

That's just business.

It's what separates the
men from the boys.

So why am I here?

You're here because we're
interested in the

future of Landshark, but we're
not interested in you.

There is no Landshark without me.

Au contraire.

By our metrics, your company
would be better off.

Mrs. Gilboa will show you out.

Wait.

Don't waste your time or ours.

But if I could just say one thing...

This is not a negotiation,
Mr. Sterling.

This is our offer.

Miss Hanson, Mr. Gottschalk,
your brother Joshua,

they all stay with the
company, and we'll do

everything within our power to
keep the stock price high.

You will step down, and you will relinquish
all interest in the company.

We will take control of the
board, and we will buy

your shares at 15 cents on
the dollar, Mr. Sterling.

You can take it or leave it.

We need your answer immediately.

My brother Joshua gets a
employment contract.

It's bonuses based on...

Joshua Sterling will be
well taken care of.

Okay.

You have yourself a deal.

Oh, I can understand that.

I'm not in this for nothing.

I don't like promises.

Get out of the way.

I despise it.

Yeah.

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Oh, nice.

Hey, can I get the next one?

It's gonna be a while.

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And maybe we can...

Me and you, maybe we can...

Start.

Bill, you know,

make something.

Uh, like, together?

It's all over, Joshua.

Yeah, let's shoot this one.

Left, left, left.

See?

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