Kaleil Isaza Tuzman

shows the initial excitement, the rise and fame, the bumping of heads and the eventual downfall. Such is the story of govworks.com, the documentary, startup.com covers it’s first, and only, year in business. Long-time friends, Tom Herman and Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, had a great business idea, with a large market, and little competition. They took something that nearly everyone goes through, and marketed it in a more efficient way. They wanted to make the DMV more efficient, specifically; they wanted to

can lead to a huge success or to a huge failure. So, the Startup.com documentary shows us the success and quick failure of govWorks Inc. a dot-com company founded in 1998 by Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman. The documentary gives the audience an insight of how difficult can be mixing friends and business. The dream of Kaleil and Herman, entrepreneurs and co-founders, came to reality pretty fast because they presented to the market pioneering ideas of what we know nowadays as, e-commerce. The company

capitals and was thought to become a million-dollar business that will go public on the stock exchanges. Unfortunately, the company did not survive when the dot com bubble bursted. The company was founded by two best friends since high school, Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman. Their friendship also fell apart as the company came to an end. govWorks.com was acquired by a multinational corporation on New Year’s Day 2001 due to the company’s rapidly depleting cash flow and inability to get more funding