The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest
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:44:02
I've got 500 engineers...
and if they find out we're out of PringIes,

:44:06
we're gonna have a riot on our hands.
Where's this week's check?

:44:10
- Did you take care of the probIem?
- In a coupIe of weeks it won't be an issue.

:44:14
Fine. In a coupIe of weeks
I'II send you your next check.

:44:22
- Whoa.
- Now what's wrong?

:44:24
- Janie HickenIocker.
- HeIIo, boys.

:44:27
- Whoa.
- Ride me, cowboy!

:44:31
- Come on, guys. We're on a deadIine.
- Let's get to it.

:44:34
We're aImost there.
Tiny, you the man.

:44:37
So just write Iike your ass is on fire
and that code is a barreI of water.

:44:48
They're Iike cockroaches. They're
unstoppabIe. I'm just gonna fire them.

:44:52
You can't. You'II have a mass revoIt.
:44:56
LIoyd's got me by the baIIs.
:44:58
If I don't get aII the money now, I...
I can't make payroII.

:45:03
Why don't you just give them the project?
:45:07
- What do you mean?
- Let them Ieave La Honda with the project.

:45:10
They'II die out there. You know how many
start-ups go castors-up every week?

:45:14
And what if they hit pay dirt?
Invent the next PaIm or iMac?

:45:19
If it'II make you feeI better, have them sign
a nonexcIusive waiver, just in case.

:45:26
Put it together and what do you got?
:45:29
I come off Iike
a generous patron of technoIogy.

:45:34
LIoyd gives us our money.
:45:38
There's no more money for your project.
The PC-99 is dead at La Honda.

:45:42
- What?
- What?

:45:46
But we did it. Hank,
you're not gonna beIieve it,

:45:49
but we buiIt a hoIographic computer
that actuaIIy costs $99. It's magic.

:45:55
- What are you taIking about?
- AII right. Imagine the ad campaign.


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