Generation Startup (2016)

  • NR
  • 07/31/2016 (US)
  • Documentary
  • 1h 33m

Learning to fail. Redefining success.

Overview

Generation Startup takes us to the front lines of entrepreneurship in America, capturing the struggles and triumphs of six recent college graduates who put everything on the line to build startups in Detroit. Shot over 17 months, it's an honest, in-the-trenches look at what it takes to launch a startup. Directed by Academy Award winner Cynthia Wade and award-winning filmmaker Cheryl Miller Houser, the film celebrates risk-taking, urban revitalization, and diversity while delivering a vital call-to-action-with entrepreneurship at a record low, the country's economic future is at stake.

Cynthia Wade

Director

Cheryl Miller Houser

Director

Cast

Dextina Booker's headshot

Dextina Booker

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Kate Catlin's headshot

Kate Catlin

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Avery Hairston's headshot

Avery Hairston

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Pamela Lewis's headshot

Pamela Lewis

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Max Nussenbaum's headshot

Max Nussenbaum

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Labib Rahman's headshot

Labib Rahman

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Brian Rudolph's headshot

Brian Rudolph

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Andrew Yang's headshot

Andrew Yang

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