STARTUP

STARTUP (trailer here) just dropped on Netflix last week and I am entirely obsessed. The show is about startups and crypto but unlike most of the tech stories we know, it’s not set in Silicon Valley, but instead the heat of Miami. The location is not the only atypical thing about the show. It’s about a female founder, played by Otmara Marrero, who puts her all into creating a new form of crypto and desperately needs funding to launch. She stumbles into an unlikely partnership with Adam Brody's character, who’s the son of a money launderer, and Edi Gathegi’s character, who’s a Haitian drug lord, to fund her business. Whether you’re just here for the Dogecoin memes or really invested in Bitcoin and the recent market manipulation speculations about Elon Musk, STARTUP is a must see.

—Eden Bekele, Digital Associate