You can sense the story even before you see it. Its narrative beats and emotional arcs announce themselves with such little subtlety they’re almost illuminated in neon. There’s the scene with the spark of the idea that will change the world, the pitch meeting where our hero goes off-script and wows the crowd with their rogue proclamations, the montage showing big capitalist markets of success – followed swiftly by the downfall. Cancellation. Financial ruin and an irreparable reputation.

I’ve watched so many TV shows and movies dramatising real-world founders and CEOs, I could write one with my eyes closed.

Adaptations of the lives of figures like Elizabeth Holmes Anna Delvey and Belle Gibson are part of the Scammer Girlboss subgenre.Credit: Robin Cowcher

There was Super Pumped, about the founding of Uber. BlackBerry about the rise and iPhone-related fall of the first mobile computer. WeCrashed, which saw Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway portray the unnerving real-life couple behind the co-working space WeWork. All of them aspire to the heights of The Social Network, but none comes close to capturing the nasty lost boy in a hoodie like director David Fincher did in........

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