Clevercell Very disappointing...

Konterr Brilliant and touching

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

biddiesmama I was unable to watch the documentary, but I would still like to comment on Kozmo.com. My husband worked for the company based in Washington, DC and they did discriminate. They would only deliver in certain areas, preferably the upper class neighborhoods. Also they treated their employees like dodo. They overworked them and in return instead of pay raises and bonuses they gave them stock in the company. Whoop Dido a company that went belly up a year later......Kozmo was a just not well put together. Dot com business really need to be thought out. I believe it was rushed and that is why the downfall was so hard. It put a lot of people out of work at a really bad time.

scottwired2172 I had one of the most infuriating movie watching experiences of my life watching this on DVD. I can't believe the immature, clueless, egomaniac founders of Kozmo raised $280 million for this harebrained, no win, "business," and then blamed its demise on the markets and the VCs who didn't want to plow more money in. The filmmaker cast a nauseatingly sympathetic eye toward the whole train wreck, basically making the founders look like cute failed visionaries. God help us if we ever go back to a time where half-baked, profitless ideas, on such a mass scale, get funded. If anything, this movie demonstrated how intoxicating media attention is, how it drives a company to made bad decisions. The CEO's inability to stop himself from talking to reporters during the IPO quiet period is one blatant example. To that end, I can't think of any other failed business-oriented documentary, chalk full of corporate malfeasance and ineptitude, that so likely pleased its subjects. The epilogue (the special features interviews) confirmed that the only lesson learned by these guys is that it was everyone else's fault, or that they grew too fast because the older seasoned guys they brought in wanted to "run big companies." Never mind that it was the founders who raised a Third World-debt-sized war chest and blew it. Or that the economic underpinnings of the business were flawed and hardly baked, and there was no possible way to become profitable EVER. The filmmaker, like the founders, gives no thought to the numbers. So what is this movie about? Publicity -- pre, during and post. Addiction to personal publicity, self-satisfaction, and no practical experience in building a business is what drove this company and its founders to extinction.

Edwin T. Rywalt After viewing this documentary, I did some additional research on this company, Kozmo.com and discovered just how ridiculous the dot.com business model (if you can call it that) was. The DVD that I viewed had some additional information on the founders of this company. After the company failed, the CEO, Park, is reported to have gone off to the Harvard Business School. Incredible, but not surprising. I thought the documentary was terrific in that it perspicuously presented the 'scam' that was perpetrated by this company by going after funding instead of profitable and meaningful business. Kudos for producers and directors Wonsuk Chin and Sam Pai.

geoff-29 This film gets close to what was happening with New York internet startups 1999-2001. The chaos, the parties, the IPOs, the overall feel of possibility (at least in 1999).The director made a great choice by featuring Joseph Park, who shows the energy, dedication, and naivete of an entrepreneur in charge of a Big Idea and a (onetime) Big Company.Startup.com got more word-of-mouth, but this is a much more satisfying film, showing and explaining the company up-and-down and some key issues in Kozmo's life. For those disappointed with the lack of anything internet-related in the startup.com story, this film hits the mark.(sort-of-spoiler below)The music is distracting, and I wish the movie was a bit longer and more fleshed-out, but overall it's a great documentary, with a party scene that took me back - I wasn't at that party, but I was at plenty others like it...