The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest
The FirstMillion Is Always the Hardest is a 2002 film based on a novel by technologyculture writer Po Bronson. The film stars Adam Garcia.
The team finds many nonessential parts but cannot come close to the 99 mark. It is Salmans idea to put all the software on the internet, eliminating the need for a hard drive, RAM, a CDROM drive, a floppy drive, and anything that holds information. The computer has been reduced to a microprocessor, a monitor, a mouse, a keyboard, and the internet, but it is still too expensive. Having seen the rest of his team watching a hologram of an attractive lady the day before, in a dream Andy is inspired to eliminate the monitor in favor of the cheaper holographic projector. The last few hundred dollars comes off when Darrell suggests using virtual reality gloves in place of a mouse and keyboard. Tiny then writes a hypnotizer code to link the gloves, the projector, and the internet, and theyre done.But immediately before he finishes, the whole team except for Tiny, who is still writing the code quits LaHonda after being told that there are no more funds for their project, but sign a nonexclusive patent waiver, meaning that LaHonda will share the patent rights to any technology they had developed up to that point. After leaving LaHonda, they pitch their product to numerous companies, but do not get accepted, mainly because ........
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