It was a memorable year for the movie and television business. Disney and Apple escalated an all-out war between the streaming services, while director Steven Spielberg plotted a battle of his own, seeking to ban all their movies from the Oscars.The Yahoo Finance staff is here to highlight the best shows and movies of 2019 that focused on anything and everything business-related. As you’ll see, that can mean high-speed trading; it can also mean automaking or pornography.
Those films tell the story of a music festival in the Bahamas that descended into chaos in 2017. The Fyre Fest story is another now-ubiquitous example of so many trends we see in startup land these days and Silicon Valley especially, even though this wasn't a tech company:"fake it til you make it";"move fast and break things"; and how celebrity influencers can irresponsibly pump untested or unproven products, organizations, or brands to their devoted followers.
I tore through “Bad Blood” and was riveted by Gibney’s film, “The Inventor” — which featured eye-opening footage of Holmes in the Theranos offices as well as interviews with many key stakeholders including a young whistleblower who helped blow open the Theranos scandal. The deal goes spectacularly wrong. Enzo does a last-minute deal with Fiat instead and the rest of the movie is about the company getting its revenge. Ford eventually does win with the real-life 1-2-3 finish in the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans race.
But instead of building a Silicon Valley unicorn, Eisenberg's character Vincent Zaleski is building a Wall Street trading strategy that involves burrowing a tunnel and laying fiber-optic cable in a straight line between a data center in Kansas and a New York Stock Exchange server in New Jersey. The idea is to get information a millisecond faster than the rest of Wall Street so you can make a fortune frontrunning everyone else's trades.