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govWorks was a dotcom company founded by Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman with other 8 employees in May 1998 which was also known as Public Data System. GovWorks enable the citizens in local communities to access and pay for their traffic infractions, tax payments, business and recreational permit applications, government records retrieval and voter registration by using the govWorks transaction-processing middleware products. The idea of the company stated when Tuzman found his two-year-old ticket in his apartment in New York and he thought that it could be a great idea if he could offer a service that give the citizen the ability to enter the Internet portal and pay for the fees. One of his friends whose named Tom Herman was a quiet, introspective and tough man, graduated from Bates College with a degree in Psychology and Computer Science shared Tuzman's dream in making money. Later, he became the CEO, co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer for govWorks, he responsible for the firm designed, built and launched the proprietary ecommerce payment engine. However, the dream seemed to be too good to be true. Soon, after 3-year existence on the market, govWork went bankrupt and sold itself to the First Data Corporation because of mismanagement, demand for capital, lack of proper services and because of their competitors had better site than they did. The dotcom bubble busted in 2000 was also the reason why this company felt really hard and Startup.com by director Chris Hegedus and Jehane Noujaim had recorded all of those tiniest things about govWoks. Kaleil was Noujaim’s roommate (the producer of Startup.com) and the producers found out about govWorks by contacts in the yellow phone book. According to Noujaim, most of the scenes were recorded when she was wearing Pijamas because much of the company’s business was transacted in late nights phone calls. Hundred hours had been filmed to show everything about obstacles, succeed, or even the process of psychological decay of Tom and Kaleil. The filmed turned out so successful that it presented all the ideas and the facts that Tom and Kaliel were accidentally made American separated from their cash and communication. And the conflicts between those two made the film became valuable documents about startup.