Growth Hacking

StartUp 2×7

Ronald Dacey: We a family here. Gotta be, 'cause family all about trust... all about loyalty, and those are the things we depend on. 'Cause what we doing here... is far too important. What we working on is a highly encrypted new version of the dark web. Can't nobody know about it. Anybody ask, Izzy Morales, she don't exist. ArakNet's creator: anonymous. Location: unknown. ....
     There are plenty of people out there who want to see us fail, some that even want to hurt us, so it's damn important that you follow protocol.
     We not playing, y'all need to understand that. We will sweat together. We will bleed together, 'cause we a family... and that's what families do.
     But security is tops, 'cause the stakes is way too high here. And if you stray, I will find you... and I will break your neck. A'ight?
Nick Talman: ..... Welcome aboard!

Wes Chandler: When your competitor takes a piece of the pie, it's not just that his piece of the pie gets bigger, it's that the whole pie gets smaller until he's the pie. So, what do we do?

Wes Chandler: I'm a little underwhelmed right now. I need to be whelmed.

Stella Namura: Have you always worked in private security?

Phil Rask: I've finished talking now. You can go.

Ronald Dacey: You wanna be tough? You gotta get hurt, bruh. That's a rule. That's a rule, bruh.

Izzy Morales: Baby, I just want it to be perfect. I don't, actually. I don't want it to be perfect. I want it to be the best.

Stella Namura: What would you do if you were still part of GenCoin? All that success? And what if ArakNet is just as successful? I mean, would you even enjoy that?

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Liabilities

StartUp 2×6

Ronald Dacey: This shit gonna play out on the street level.

Nick Talman: We just have to make it to a place where they need us more alive than dead. Ronald Dacey: Right now we need to focus on being not dead.

Ronald Dacey: Lies, bruh. That's that shit that'll poison us. ... Lies beget lies, bruh. That's how we sunk ourselves with GenCoin. It's better to man up and get out in front of it.

Izzy Morales: He's gonna bail.

Ronald Dacey: They ain't gonna stop... until she dead. Or until we beat them. So that's just us putting that shit out there. Cards on the table.
Wes Chandler: Excuse me.

Nick Talman: Maybe he's gonna kill us.

Wes Chandler: I appreciate you being straight with me back there, my man, so... I'll be straight with you. What do you see as your role at ArakNet?
Ronald Dacey: Founded that shit. Got the user base up...
Wes Chandler: No, no, yeah. Of course. Of course, but, like, look. I got an investment in there now. It's about to get big. It's about to get real. That's the plan. Ain't that right? So how do you see yourself fitting in?

Wes Chandler: Anybody who makes his living protecting people, I don't trust. 'Cause there's always somebody coming around with more money.

Wes Chandler: Now, my dough's in the bank. It's ready to go. How bad you want ArakNet? Just give it some thought.

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Pivot

StartUp 2×5

Rance: Queen, look, you have to stop thinking about it this way. Think about IBM versus Apple, or MySpace versus Facebook. Look, I know you're really concerned about being first, but maybe it just is about who's better.

Tamara Dacey: You do what you gotta, baby. You do what's gonna make you feel better.

Rance: I really hope you're thirsty.
Izzy Morales: Eight lattes?
Rance: One of them's a hibiscus.

Wes Chandler: You have 2,000 active users just through word of mouth?
Nick Talman: Correct.
Wes Chandler: And you can tell what people are using the network for? So far? Drugs, guns, rock and roll.
Nick Talman: So far.
Wes Chandler: I mean, hell. BitCoin wouldn't be BitCoin without the Silk Road.
Nick Talman: Nope.
Wes Chandler: The internet wouldn't even be invented if we weren't at war with somebody. You wanna make an omelet, you gotta break some eggs.

Phil Rask: .... And frog knows what's happened, so with his final breath, he looks up at the scorpion, and says, "Why would you do that? Now we're both gonna drown." And the scorpion simply shrugs, and says... "'Cause I'm a scorpion."
Izzy Morales: So which one of us is that about?

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Loss

StartUp 2×4

Nick Talman: Hey, so we just want to make sure, uh... What's "Abysm"?
Izzy Morales: A virus I'm writing.
Nick Talman: Why are you doing that?
Izzy Morales: To knee-cap Guizer.

Nick Talman: And this chicken, by the way. Yeah, wow... You're good.
Mara Chandler: We raise everything here.
Nick Talman: Mmm-hmm. Yeah, you can tell.
Mara Chandler: It's pretty fresh, you know. Very fresh. I was there when he hatched. From just a little egg. His name was Meryl. He was a cool dude. Really wise soul, you know. But I'm glad that you're eating him because, I think, Meryl would have liked you.
Nick Talman: Uh... I mean...
Mara Chandler: I'm just fucking with you, dude... Yeah, no, his name was Fred.
Nick Talman: It tastes like a Fred.

Wes Chandler: Nick... It's you... You're not ready to spearhead something of this magnitude.

Nick Talman: So you want to work with people who stab other people with kitchen utensils? Wes Chandler: Now, the point is, it turns out Haggy and me are best friends... to this day. You wanna know why? Because I owned him.

Wes Chandler: You've grown into an impressive young man, Nick. I mean, you're smart, you're caring, you're motivated. And believe it or not, your father was really proud of you. But when I look in your eyes... all I see is a scared kid who stays in his room while me and his old man were out back smoking stoogies because the smell made him nauseous.

Ronald Dacey: You don't ask her. You sit down, you say... What's her name?
Touie Dacey: Rachelle.
Ronald Dacey: You say, "Hey, Rachelle. I've been noticing you noticing me. And I like it." Hey! What?
Touie Dacey: Ah, pap, no. Nobody spit game like that no more. It's a different time, all right? And, you know, spitting game make you sound... Make you sound weak.
Ronald Dacey: Doing what everybody else do, that's what make you weak. You want to be like everybody else? You're a Dacey, you ain't like everybody else.

Ronald Dacey: You tell her you been noticing her noticing you, and you like it. Her face turn red, that mean green, baby, you good... It worked on your mama.

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Early Adopters

StartUp 2×3

Nick Talman: Is it like the Silk Road? Kind of like that?
Izzy Morales: No. Silk Road is just a marketplace, this is, basically, the new Dark Net. And nobody can touch it except us.

Izzy Morales: Well, there's enough nodes on the network where I can add another hop. It'll make it more secure.
Ronald Dacey: Yes, still don't know what y'all talking about because I'm old as shit.
Izzy Morales: Yes, you are. Look real quick. Liberty City dude makes a transaction with a dude in Homestead. These two computers aren't talking directly to each other. Any cop or hacker can easily intercept that. So what ArakNet does, it turns all the other computers on the network into hops, right? Liberty City here is the entrance node. Dude buys a gram of pookie from Homestead dude, Homestead becomes the exit node. Right. But the request comes from Liberty City, the entrance node, hops over to somewhere over here in North Miami Beach, down to some pill popper in Coral Gables, to a computer in Overtown, back to homeboy in Homestead. Different configuration every time, that's what makes it impossible to trace.

Nick Talman: There is an overwhelming demand for this sort of thing right now. Law enforcement's getting smarter, hackers are getting savvier. Just forget about the pedestrian Internet. I mean, even the Dark Net itself is becoming polluted with corporations and surveillance. And new and upcoming generations are absolutely looking for a new safe haven, somewhere pure. So I think... I really think that this could be not only the new Dark Net, I think it could be the new Internet.

Nick Talman: You want this thing to grow, you want it to spread? You want to have hundreds of people buying and selling drugs or do you want millions of people buying and selling legitimate goods? You have to think about the average customer. Now, there's no way in hell, any millennial is gonna wait more than .4 seconds for something to load or buffer.

Nick Talman: I think I should be your CEO.

Nick Talman: To go global and... Just your dream version? Aim high.
Izzy Morales: I need a real team.
Nick Talman: Okay. How much?
Izzy Morales: I need a network manager, I need at least two cryptographers, I need a couple of more coders other than myself.
Nick Talman: How much?
Izzy Morales: Millions.
Nick Talman: I can get you millions.
Ronald Dacey: Then why the hell you still waitin' tables?
Nick Talman: I'm not. I quit.
Izzy Morales: What?
Ronald Dacey: When?
Nick Talman: I... Thirty-eight minutes ago.

Nick Talman: You're sitting on the next big thing. You need somebody to make it real. I can do that. But you have to empower me.

Wes Chandler: So... I know about the investigation.
Nick Talman: Yeah. Uh, good. Let's talk about that. That's, uh... That's actually bullshit. That's gonna be cleared up--
Wes Chandler: Mmm. We're fine. I mean, rich white guys, we don't go to jail.

Nick Talman: What if I told you there's a new tech frontier on the horizon? A new Dark Net, completely separate from Tor. It has its own software, it's on its own network. Goods and services can be bought or sold, information exchanged, political uprisings orchestrated. All securely, all anonymously. It's free from government interference, it's free from corporatization. This network is controlled by myself and two other very smart people. And what if I was to tell you that we're not even financed yet...

Tamara Dacey: It ain't just about money, Ronnie, okay? They want... They want power.
Ronald Dacey: Ain't no difference, Tam.
Tamara Dacey: Yeah, there is. Because all them niggas have been talking shit. All of them, not just E.
Ronald Dacey: I ain't tryin' to hear that shit about who run the streets harder! I ain't tryin' to hear that shit from E. I ain't tryin' to hear that shit from friends, and, baby, I ain't tryin' to hear that shit from you! I'm tryin' to make money! And when we make that money, the rest of these fools, they can fend for themselves, 'cause we're getting up out of here. We're taking Touie, we're taking Els, and we're getting out of here.

Izzy Morales: Fuck!

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Bleeding Edge

StartUp 2×2

Phil Rask: How do I know you won't just, uh, disappear yourself?
Nick Talman: I'm not trying to run for my life, I am trying to get it back.

Ronald Dacey: You know about that shit?
Izzy Morales: 'Course I know about Tor.
Ronald Dacey: That's... That's right. What do you know about that shit? Can we trust that to move product?
Izzy Morales: It depends. You know the government started it?
Ronald Dacey: Word?
Izzy Morales: Word.

Ronald Dacey: You know how to get ahold of one of those?
Izzy Morales: I don't know, dude. Google it, download it... What do you want me to do, Ronald? You want me to come to your house and give you computer lessons?!

Ronald Dacey: Go see your family, Isabelle. That shit is way bigger than you.

Vera: Do you ever wonder what your life would have been like if you just left Miami? Before you came to us...

Officer Jules: Shit, Ronny. You don't understand what's happening, huh? When's the last you been to the 58 T? It's just rows of townhouses popping up. And then, you got Cherelus's new shit.
Ronald Dacey: Of course, I know that. Why do you think I'm talking to you?
Officer Jules: You know, there was a time where we'd scratch each other's back. But now, with all this shit going down, those orders are coming down from much higher up now.
Ronald Dacey: 5%... Please. 5%! ... 10%.
Officer Jules: Nigga, you trippin'. You can't buy this shit, man. Not no more.

Izzy Morales: I was thinking... How do you find your way onto the Dark Net that's 100% anonymous?... How do you do it? How do you do it?... Boom! Then it hits me. You don't. You don't because it's impossible unless you create your own Dark Net.

Ronald Dacey: Are you sure you ain't on something?
Izzy Morales: Why?
Ronald Dacey: Your own Dark Net?
Izzy Morales: I already did. Come here...

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Disruption

StartUp 2×1

Vera: Let me ask you a really fun question...
Phil Rask: Yeah.
Vera: Why'd you do it?
Grigory: She was asking too many questions. She was real go-getter. You know?
Phil Rask: Good luck with that.

Phil Rask: Don't threaten me, Nick.

News Anchor: In just three months, you've taken a simple peer to peer network and built it into a ubiquitous digital currency.
Alex Bell: I think what we're seeing is the world is ready for a cryptocurrency based on pure commerce. There's so little trust in government these days, so...
News Anchor: But do you think it's a little disconcerting to people that this sort of power is being wielded by what is essentially tech company? You have a board, you have investors... How are people expected to place their full trust in a corporation like Axis?

Nick Talman: The two things we really have to be able to answer are, one, what makes this a better VR architecture program than any out there, and two, how quickly can this be a publicly traded company?

Ronald Dacey: He paid $70 for a gram?
Touie Dacey: Yeah.
Ronald Dacey: Damn, that's ten more than my street markup.
Touie Dacey: I mean, I spent six on shipping. So...
Ronald Dacey: Well, still.

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Recapitalization

StartUp 1×10

News Anchor: If you could, go ahead and explain this to me, 'cause I guess I'm a little, I don't know, thick when it comes to these sort of things. What is it? Is it like a PayPal? What would you compare it to?
Alex Bell: Well, PayPal is a digital payment system. It's not its own currency. GenCoin is. It's like... okay, so, you could pay for something with a dollar or you could pay for something with yen. Or you could pay for something with GenCoin.
News Anchor: So, it actually is its own currency?
Alex Bell: Yes.

Izzy Morales: All I could think about was this was the dude. This guy, he had the money, and he was gonna make it real...

Vera: You're welcome to call your lawyer. Otherwise, I'd let this one be.

Ronald Dacey: This some serious ass shit right here. Stone cold. You gotta know when to be the man... and when to be the bigger man. You feel me?

Izzy Morales: I'm sorry. I. Am. Sorry. For what I did, and "sorry" doesn't cut it, and I know that, but I have no other words other than "I am sorry."

Izzy Morales: This right here is GenCoin. There's no GenCoin without you.
Nick Talman: We had a plan to get the company back. You want in?

Vera: Some dogs can't be chained. She would have bitten us all.

Phil Rask: Hi.

Alex Bell: Okay then. What, uh... And how... how can I help?
Phil Rask: I need money.

Alex Bell: Are... are... I don't understand. Are you blackmail...
Phil Rask: I'm blackmailing you. Yeah.

Phil Rask: Shut up. Be smart, okay?
Alex Bell: And you'll leave me alone?

Ronald Dacey: I remember I shot him 'cause I had to. It was me or him. But after I squeezed that trigger... I let that shit change me. Get inside my bones like some cancer all up and through every part of who I was. I let my sin define me, grind me down to the man I thought I 'posed to be. But you ain't got to do that, son. This town... it's what you make it. You need to know that.
     You got a choice. We all got choice. Life about choice. And the choices I make, they ain't always gonna be pretty. Hell, matter of fact, sometimes they gonna be ugly.
     There's gonna be people gunning for us. And I ain't talkin' about them kids you throw down with over in Little River or even them Towners, dawg. I'm talking a whole lot worse. 'Cause here, where we at... every move you make, it come with a price. And you got to be willing to pay that price... and move on... and know that it's worth every tear. Every ounce of sweat. Every drop of blood. 'Cause this ain't America, kid. This here... is Miami.

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Hostile Takeover

StartUp 1×9

Alex Bell: If you wanna lead, these are the tough choices you have to make.

Alex Bell: For the good of GenCoin...

Ronald Dacey: You eat pig?
Nick Talman: Do... do I eat pig? What do you mean?
Ronald Dacey: Tam. She makin' griot tonight. You should come hang.

Ronald Dacey: Let us show you some Haitian hospitality. Brethren.
Nick Talman: All right. I will, thank you. Let me bring over a bottle of wine, some white shit.
Ronald Dacey: Just bring... bring yourself. Just bring your white-ass self.

Ronald Dacey: Let me tell you something. No matter what you been through during the day, coming home to something like this... Damn. The world just make sense again.

Izzy Morales: You see? That's the thing. You pretend to be all cutting-edge and progressive, asking about the why. Why, Nick? Why, Ronald? Why? You're just a corporate stooge like the rest of 'em.

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Pro Rata

StartUp 1×8

Alex Bell: You know, I'll admit it. I've been trying to figure something like this out for a long time.
Izzy Morales: Something like GenCoin?
Alex Bell: Yeah. I mean, there's so many other ones out there. Ever since BitCoin hit the scene and all those other open-source peer-to-peers, all I could think was... if you made one that was closed-source...
Izzy Morales: Impervious to corruption.
Alex Bell: Yes! To human nature altogether.
Izzy Morales: Exactly.
Alex Bell: No one could crack it. No one's code was stable enough.
Izzy Morales: It took me five years to write. Well, seven, if you count all the drafts that imploded on me.

Adolfo Morales: No more, okay? Asking the wrong people for money--
Izzy Morales: I know, Dad. I know.
Adolfo Morales: Mija... it never leaves you. Even after you're square.

Phil Rask: May I come in?
Nick Talman: Can I say no?
Phil Rask: Your dad didn't give you the crash course before he left, huh? Uh, without a warrant, I have to be invited into your home.
Nick Talman: Like a vampire.
Phil Rask: Yeah. Just like that. Just like that. Except vampires don't get warrants. I do.

Nick Talman: I don't know what to tell you. I mean, he seems like a good guy to me.
Phil Rask: I'm sure he is, but this is Miami. Even the good get dirty. Ask your daddy...

Nick Talman: I'd like you to leave.
Phil Rask: What?
Nick Talman: I would like you to leave. The magic words.

Ronald Dacey: Put your left hand where my left hand is at. Put your right hand where my right hand is at. Finger off the trigger till you're ready to pull, all right? Come here. Now, you stay in your room. First person to open that door, you put a bullet in their head. Then you go protect your mama and your sister. You understand? We gonna be all right.

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Valuation

StartUp 1×7

Izzy Morales: Yo. You didn't bring your swimsuit?
Ronald Dacey: Are you serious about that?
Izzy Morales: Yeah. He said bring 'em. I brought mine.

Alex Bell: I totally get it. You know, new currency based in a self-evolving source code. Human-proof, future-proof. If your code works...

Alex Bell: For me... there's one other intangible component. Why? .....
Izzy Morales: Well, I mean, like I was trying to tell you...
Alex Bell: About how it can give Third World communities access to banking, how it can give oppressed nations the same rights we have? Yeah, sure, heard it a million times. BitCoin, all those other peer-to-peers, they're ready to die on that hill, but why?
Ronald Dacey: It ain't just that. GenCoin means currency without banks, corporations. Say you some poor immigrant...
Alex Bell: Sure, but why you? Why you, Izzy? Why you, Nick? Why do each of you care about GenCoin? Besides the altruism. Come on, why? Why each of you?

Alex Bell: More than anything, I need you to be able to answer that question. You know what? I invest in a company, I'm not investing in the idea or the infrastructure. I am investing in the people, the intangibles you can't really put a price on. That's how you stay ahead in tech. Sound good?

Ronald Dacey: ... We need that cash yesterday!
Nick Talman: I hear Mexico's nice.

Ronald Dacey: Where you from, Alex?
Alex Bell: Uh, Greenwich. Connecticut.
Ronald Dacey: Damn, that's quiet. Safe... Most of the folks in your world building the software that's gonna shape our lives, most of those people, such as yourself, y'all grew up in a bubble, ain't that right?
Alex Bell: You're not wrong.
Ronald Dacey: And now you still in a bubble. Same shit, different path. Right?... GenCoin. For the people, by the people. You see what I'm sayin'?

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Bootstrapped

StartUp 1×6

Nick Talman: Ronald. Aw, man, we have a small problem.

Leonard: Maybe she'll forgive you. My guess is she probably will 'cause she understands you. She wants you to be happy 'cause she loves you. And when you love somebody, that's all that matters. Not all this...

Ronald Dacey: We're here to start a business.
Nick Talman: I thought we already tried that.
Ronald Dacey: We tried it the Nick way, we tried it the Izzy way. Now we're about to try it the Ronald way.

Nick Talman: What are you saying?
Ronald Dacey: I'm saying... we've been going about this all wrong. We were trying to lock down the big busts before we even got the swagger right. You dig?
Nick Talman: Swa... Okay, I guess. "The swagger"?

Ronald Dacey: We need to stop looking at this shit like it's some West Coast, incubated, garage-type bullshit. This here Miami, y'all. A nigga can have the most revolutionary idea since the Internet, and ain't nobody gonna take you seriously unless you got the swagger.

Ronald Dacey: Izzy, you got the code. Nick, you know about money. I know about selling. Three o' us... we can own this damn city, y'all. But if we want folks to start taking us seriously, we need to act like we already do.

Nick Talman: You know, what you're proposing is highly, highly illegal.
Ronald Dacey: Nick, you done lost a million and a half, and you didn't tell your investor. You didn't tell your investor 'cause you started this thing with stolen drug money. And now... you worried about illegal?

Nick Talman: What we're doing is fraud.
Ronald Dacey: Nick, my nigga, you in this now. You been in this. It can't get no worse.
Nick Talman: Is that supposed to make me feel better?
Ronald Dacey: Yeah. It is... All right, now stand up, man, and be a man.

Benny Blush: You wanted to see if I would double down. Same thing happens with every startup I've invested in. They'll have me come in and hope that I'll fall for their dog and pony, and then in the end, I'll either be excited enough or dumb enough to re-up... I think it's admirable, your generation. You know, some people call it "entitlement." I like to think of it as... tenacity.

Nick Talman: Okay, all three of us, we're going to prison for a very long time.

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Buyout

StartUp 1×5

Ronald Dacey: Nope.
Nick Talman: So... No?
Ronald Dacey: I reject your offer.

Ronald Dacey: You wanna now what the only difference between a rich thug and a poor thug is?....

Ronald Dacey: Sometimes buildings burn, my nigga.
Lance: What you say to me?
Ronald Dacey: I said sometimes, buildings burn, my nigga.

Izzy Morales: They're better than me. They beat me. How could I possibly find them?
Nick Talman: Because you're you. They beat you now. That's okay. There's gotta be a way. You can try, right?
Izzy Morales: Nick, I'm tired.
Nick Talman: It's okay. You can try, right?
Izzy Morales: I am tired.
Nick Talman: Look at me. I believe in you. I believe in you. Are you saying it's impossible or you don't know how? Is it impossible or you don't know how?
Izzy Morales: I don't know how.
Nick Talman: That's okay. That's fine. That's good. 'Cause then you'll find a way. I'll help you. I'll help you in any way I can. Let me help you... Where do we start?
Izzy Morales: .... Get me a beer.

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Angel Investor

StartUp 1×4

Izzy Morales: Dude, Maya Hibert, I went to Stanford with her. They've been begging me to come work for them. I mean, they're a joke. Their code is shit.
Benny Blush: Well, maybe so. But you know what they say. It doesn't matter if you're the best. It only matters if you're first.

Nick Talman: You want the truth? ... GenCoin for me, it's not about giving loans to farmers in Afghanistan or bank accounts to political refugees. That is just something that's a New Age hippie pipe dream we like to tell ourselves so we can feel good when we close our eyes at night. But the truth is those things won't change. They never change. You know that. That is the way the world works. But what GenCoin can do, as a business, pure bottom line... just imagine owning a fraction of a penny of every dollar spent in the United States. Think about that. Owning a piece of currency... You know how much I care about kids in the Sudan? About as much as you care about cats and dogs.

Madie Pierce: That's some serious equipment.
Phil Rask: Mm-hmm. Only thing I got from my ex-wife. Don't mess with a man's coffee.

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Proof of Concept

StartUp 1×3

Andrew Talman: Look, he... he won't do anything to you, okay? He can't.
Nick Talman: He's FBI!
Andrew Talman: It's... complicated with Rask. Just put it this way, he... He's not what you think he is.

Phil Rask: What, you don't drink?
Madie Pierce: Not when I'm working.
Phil Rask: Here we mix business with pleasure, otherwise there's no time for pleasure.

Ronald Dacey: You in the real estate game. That's a solid game. Everybody know it. Safest game there is. But it ain't what the future about... Cryptocurrency. That's the next game. ..... A currency owned by the people.
Lance: You smoking that pipe again, man?

Phil Rask: How long you been in Miami now? Is it... two weeks?
Madie Pierce: Three.
Phil Rask: Three? Right. Well, the first thing you gotta understand is that Miami is a haven for dirty money. Florida's homestead exemption means that white-collar criminals can dump all of their money into real estate and the government's not allowed to touch any.
Madie Pierce: Even if they're convicted.
Phil Rask: Even...
Madie Pierce: I know.
Phil Rask: Good.

Phil Rask: Now, pay attention. Here we got Miami Beach, obviously. But all these houses that we can see from here, I would say about 18% of them, bought with dirty money. A lot of that money flows from over there. Brickell, Miami's shiny new financial district. You thought Wall Street was sleazy? Jesus. Try pulling a few recent files on Brickell. Now, as well as being a mecca for unclean wealth, Miami is also bringing in more guns, drugs, and hot cars than any other city on the East Coast, mainly through Port Miami just there. These days it's largely controlled by the Cubans. Speaking of... Let me show you. Miami is also home to more immigrants than anywhere else in the US. Next year, half the babies born in this city will be born to immigrant parents... Dominicans, Haitians, Nigerians, Russians, Chinese... The list goes on. But of all those populations, the one group that has climbed the socioeconomic ladder startlingly well is the Cubans. Like those houses out on Biscayne Bay? The big ones? A lot of that is Cuban coin. But their roots? You know, where they started? Over here. Look. See that? With the park in the middle?.. That's Hialeah. Biggest population of Cubans outside of Cuba itself. Everyone thinks that's Little Havana, but that's just the postcard version. You want the real Cuba, you gotta cross the river. Now the Haitians... Oy, that's something different. Unlike when the Cubans came here... They're granted asylum, they're welcomed in... The Haitians come, they're told to go back. So, anyone who does stay is going to be persecuted, demeaned, relegated to this patch of land just across the 195 there. That's Little Haiti, some of the most desperate people in all of Miami-Dade. Drugs, gangs, turf wars, poverty... all day, every day. So, you got your bearings?

Phil Rask: So, standing up here, looking around at all this, you've got to think about one thing: What does a banker from Brickell, a hacker from Hialeah, and a thug from Little Haiti have in common?
Madie Pierce: I don't know.
Phil Rask: Me neither. But once we do, that's where the money went.

Benny Blush: Me, I just got involved with something I care about, and I got lucky.
Nick Talman: Yeah, so you love dogs, huh?
Benny Blush: No, I love money.

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Ground Floor

StartUp 1×2

Ronald Dacey: Only reason anybody come out here... is to catch a gator or feed a gator. And I don't care for gator meat. You chew that shit forever.

Ronald Dacey: You should see what I can do with a blade... It's amazing how long you can stay alive with your guts all hangin' out...

Izzy Morales: Look. If you invest in GenCoin, help us make this a real thing, okay, your money, it turns into a digital currency. It's untaxed, unregulated, untraceable. Suddenly, you're not on some corner slinging rocks. You're moving whatever you want, in the comfort of your own home. It's the future... Not just of crime, but of commerce. It's the future of a truly free market. The question is, Ronald... do you wanna be a part of it?

Phil Rask: Come on. It's okay. You all right? It's just a car. It's just a car. All right? Calm. I'm all right. You're all right. This? Who cares? Oh, see this? It's metal and glass. That's all it is. Just metal and glass, my friend. Just metal and glass. That's metal and that's glass and that's metal and that's glass!

Madeline Pierce: I just transferred down from D.C.
Phil Rask: Pleasure.
Madeline Pierce: Beautiful city.
Phil Rask: Miami? Right...

Phil Rask: See, this town... All this is built on financial crime, right up to the top officials. There are people who are working very hard to make sure that people like you and me don't get a fair shot at bringin' them down. But if they play dirty, you know, means we can play a little dirty, too...

Ronald Dacey: I was this close. You understand me? This close to losing you today. You don't know what that's like as a father. You can't know what that's like. Tomorrow might not be so lucky.

Nick Talman: It's called smurfing. It's a structured money movement. Now, we need 220 grand by tonight, but we can't go to a bank and withdraw that much. However, we can walk into a bunch of different banks and ask for a little bit. It will have to be less than $10,000 in each withdrawal, otherwise they will file a Currency Transaction Report with FINCen, and we can go to jail for a long time. But less than ten, they're not gonna do that.
Izzy Morales: No, uh, wait, wait. No one's going to notice that?
Nick Talman: Well, if we do the same bank different branches, after a few they could file a Suspicious Activities Report, but that would take weeks to go through and I think we would... well, we'd be alive.

Nick Talman: All right. We'll smurf.
Izzy Morales: All right. We can smurf.

Nick Talman: Dude, I don't think I'm gonna make it.
Izzy Morales: Drive a little faster. Stop driving like a white person.

Izzy Morales: Hack into the traffic lights? What do you think I have going on in here?!

Nick Talman: Are you looking to invest?
Ronald Dacey: Nah. I want more than that. I wanna be your partner.

Ronald Dacey: Hey, look, bro. We in Miami. Them dudes sittin' up in them Ivory Towers on Brickell? Ain't much difference between them and the dudes I know.

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Seed Money

StartUp 1×1

Phil Rask: No, no, no, don't stop. I can wait.

Phil Rask: Do you want to go to jail?.. I'm kidding. Okay, come on. You're not going to jail. You can leave.

Andrew Talman: Is this really how you want to do this?
Phil Rask: Yes, it is, yeah.
Andrew Talman: Just like the other guys. I thought you were better than that.
Phil Rask: Me, too. Me, too.

Izzy Morales: .... That's power. That's GenCoin.
— Uh, sorry, is it like PayPal?
Izzy Morales: No, PayPal is an online payment system. It works with whatever currency you put in it. GenCoin is a currency in and of itself. It runs off a complex algorithm. It took me almost seven years to develop. It predicts, it adjusts and adapts to foreign markets and political shifts in order to remain stable.

Izzy Morales: Here's what's up... Folks are always saying that money corrupts people. But what everyone fails to recognize is that people corrupt money. GenCoin can put an end to that. It offers more stability, security and anonymity than any digital currency out there.

Nick Talman: It's a currency. It's like any other currency, but it's digital. Um, it's not tied to any government or bank. So, anyone on Earth can access it.
Taylor: And how does it actually have real life value?
Nick Talman: It has the value that we collectively ascribe to it. Same as any of this. For instance, this bottle of wine, you know, that your aunt got us. We could agree that this is worth $1000.
Taylor: You want me to believe that it's a $1000 bottle of wine?
Nick Talman: Or if I said, it's worth $1000 for me to part with it, and you said, it's worth $1000 for me to have it. Then it's worth $1000.
Taylor: I get it. But...
Nick Talman: I know you do. I know you do.
Taylor: But I still would not pay $1000 for that shitty bottle of wine.
Nick Talman: We're drinking it.
Taylor: We are...

Phil Rask: You're not in trouble by the way.
Nick Talman: Huh?
Phil Rask: You know I'm a federal agent, right?
Nick Talman: Yes, that's what Selby said.
Phil Rask: You look nervous is all. As if you're in trouble. You're not.
Nick Talman: No, no, I think...
Phil Rask: Maybe the gun, I don't know...
Nick Talman: Oh, right.

Phil Rask: So what'd you use?
Nick Talman: What did I use?
Phil Rask: To catch the tuna? Not just worms, I'm assuming.
Nick Talman: No, not worms. I use herring. Sometimes I go with scad.
Phil Rask: So just smaller fish then?
Nick Talman: Yeah.
Phil Rask: Right. Hmm. You know, one of these days I'm going to retire, you're going to take me out there, show me a thing or two.
Nick Talman: Okay. It's a deal.
Phil Rask: What?
Nick Talman: I will. If you want, I can... Let me know.
Phil Rask: Huh?
Nick Talman: Let me know. I mean, like, let me know and I will... Anytime, really. I mean, I have to find the time, but, you know... You know, doesn't sound like you're retiring anytime soon, so... I'm just saying you haven't had a vacation. It seems like you work hard. They work you. I know the feeling, so... But if you find the time, I will also find the time.
Phil Rask: Thanks, Nick.

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