Gruschel mich! Die studiVZ-Story
2025
60 minutes
Overview
A crazy Facebook deal and trouble over the "Gruscheln": studiVZ rose at an incredible pace in the 2000s to become Germany's largest social network. This drove its US competitor Facebook crazy. So much so that studiVZ founder Ehssan Dariani and his co-founders met Mark Zuckerberg in Silicon Valley and were presented with an offer that would go down in history. But a rise in ecstasy was followed by a dramatic fall - of the network and its most important founder. The documentary is about scandals, personal stories of loss and the question: did the studiVZ founders just steal everything?
Top Cast
Ehssan Dariani
Self - Interviewee
Dario Suter
Self - Interviewee
Michael Brehm
Self - Interviewee
Agneta Binninger
Self - Interviewee
Argang Ghadiri
Self - Interviewee
Zora Hocke-Bolte
Self - Interviewee
Martin Grosse
Self - Interviewee
Robert Schneider
Self - Interviewee
Christian Stöcker
Self - Interviewee
Peter Schaar
Self - Interviewee
Bridgee Melling
Self
Ulf Fritzmann
Self
Harald Schmidt
Self (archive footage)
Leyla Trebbien
Self - Narrator (voice)