Facebook Movie to be Filmed at Johns Hopkins University

Parts of the Facebook Movie: “The Social Network” by Andrew Sorkin will be filmed on the Hopkins Campus in Baltimore starting in November.

Note: I’m very involved at Johns Hopkins University, serving on a number of boards both for the overall University and the Carey Business School. I was in Baltimore for several days last week and I’m very excited that this deal got done and can now be talked about publicly! Also a big congrats to a friend of mine who was very involved in making this happen!

This is really exciting stuff. Not only is it exciting because this will be a great movie, but also because it will hopefully generate more interest among Hopkins students/faculty/alumni in startups. One of the initiatives I have passionately advocated for is setting up better resources university-wide for students interested in start-ups and venture capital. Between Hopkins phenomenal medical, public health, business and engineering schools (among others) more amazing collaboration and spin-outs should be materializing than currently are.

I hope the Facebook Movie and filming will be an additional catalyst toward drawing attention to this.

If you’re a Hopkins alum involved in the startup world, please reach out to me.

Past Movie Coverage:

• Mashable
• The Social

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