The Founder Watchlist

TV Series · 2014 – 2019 · USA

Silicon Valley

Mike Judge

Comedy about a small team trying to build a compression startup through accelerators, funding...

TV Series · 2015 · India

TVF Pitchers

Four friends quit their jobs to build a startup in India, told with realistic founder struggles.

TV Series · 2020 · South Korea

Start-Up

Korean drama set in a fictional Silicon Valley style campus following young founders chasing...

TV Series · 2014 – 2017 · USA

Halt and Catch Fire

Christopher Cantwell, Christopher C. Rogers

Drama tracing the personal computing and early internet era through engineers and entrepreneurs.

TV Series · 2022 · USA

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

Dramatization of Travis Kalanick and Uber from scrappy startup to global giant.

TV Series · 2016 – 2018 · USA

StartUp

Thriller about a digital currency startup funded by dirty money in Miami.

TV Series · 2015 – 2019 · USA

Mr. Robot

Thriller following a hacker drawn into a plot against a corporate conglomerate.

TV Series · 2013 · USA

Betas

Comedy about four friends building a dating app and trying to raise funding in Silicon Valley.

TV Series · 2020 · India

Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story

Hansal Mehta

The rise and fall of stockbroker Harshad Mehta and the 1992 securities scam.

TV Series · 2023 · India

Scam 2003: The Telgi Story

Hansal Mehta

The story of Abdul Karim Telgi and the fake stamp paper scam.

TV Series · 2022 · India

Rocket Boys

Drama on Homi Bhabha and Vikram Sarabhai building India's science institutions.

TV Series · 2024 · India

Bull

TVF drama following a young man navigating India's stock market world.

TV Series · 2016 – 2023 · USA

Billions

Drama about a hedge fund titan and a prosecutor locked in a long battle.

TV Series · 2018 – 2023 · USA

Succession

Jesse Armstrong

Drama about a family fighting over control of a global media empire.

TV Series · 2020 · UK and USA

Industry

Drama about young graduates competing inside a London investment bank.

TV Series · 2007 – 2015 · USA

Mad Men

Drama set in a 1960s advertising agency and the people who build it.

TV Series · 2011 – 2019 · USA

Suits

Drama about a top law firm and a gifted associate without a degree.

TV Series · 2005 – 2013 · USA

The Office

Mockumentary about staff at a struggling paper company branch.

TV Series · 2012 – 2016 · USA

House of Lies

Comedy drama following a team of management consultants and their clients.

TV Series · 2012 – 2014 · USA

The Newsroom

Aaron Sorkin

Drama about a team trying to rebuild a cable news show with higher standards.

TV Series · 2015 – 2020 · USA

Empire

Drama about a family fighting for control of a music and entertainment company.

TV Series · 2004 – 2011 · USA

Entourage

Comedy following a rising actor and his team navigating Hollywood deals.

TV Series · 2022 · USA

Severance

Ben Stiller

Thriller about employees whose work and personal memories are surgically split.

TV Series · 2019 · USA

The Morning Show

Drama about power and crisis inside a network morning show.

TV Series · 2021 – 2023 · USA

Physical

Drama about a woman building a fitness video empire in the 1980s.

TV Series · 2017 – 2019 · USA

GLOW

Comedy drama about building a women's wrestling television venture in the 1980s.

TV Series · 2017 – 2022 · USA

Ozark

Thriller about a financial planner who launders money for a cartel.

TV Series · 2008 – 2013 · USA

Breaking Bad

Drama about a chemistry teacher who builds a drug empire.

TV Series · 2015 – 2022 · USA

Better Call Saul

Drama tracing a lawyer building a practice and a reputation.

TV Series · 2002 – 2008 · USA

The Wire

Drama examining institutions of a city across several seasons.

TV Series · 2020 · USA

Mythic Quest

Comedy set inside a video game studio shipping and running a live product.

TV Series · 2020 · USA

Upload

Comedy set in a future where a tech company sells a digital afterlife.

TV Series · 2021 – 2022 · USA

Made for Love

Dark comedy about a woman escaping a controlling tech billionaire husband.

TV Series · 2017 – 2021 · USA

The Bold Type

Drama about young women working at a global magazine.

TV Series · 2020 · South Korea

Itaewon Class

Drama about a young man building a restaurant business to challenge a giant rival.

TV Series · 2014 · South Korea

Misaeng: Incomplete Life

Drama about an intern adjusting to life inside a large trading company.

TV Series · 2019 · India

Made in Heaven

Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti

Drama about two friends running a high end wedding planning company in Delhi.

TV Series · 2020 – 2022 · India

Masaba Masaba

Scripted show loosely based on the life of fashion designer and founder Masaba Gupta.

TV Series · 2021 · India

Aspirants

TVF drama about friends preparing for the UPSC civil services exam.

TV Series · 2019 – 2021 · India

Kota Factory

Drama set in the coaching hub of Kota following students chasing engineering entrance exams.

TV Series · 2020 · India

Cubicles

TVF drama about a young engineer in his first corporate job.

TV Series · 2021 · India

Bombay Begums

Drama about five women navigating ambition and power across a Mumbai bank.

TV Series · 2019 · India

City of Dreams

Nagesh Kukunoor

Drama about a political family fighting for control after the patriarch is attacked.

TV Series · 2023 · India

Farzi

Raj and DK

Thriller about a struggling artist who builds a counterfeit currency operation.

TV Series · 2020 · India

Mismatched

Coming of age drama set at a summer coding and technology program.

TV Series · 2020 · India

Aarya

Ram Madhvani

Drama about a woman forced to take over the family business after a crisis.

TV Series · 2022 · India

Guilty Minds

Legal drama following lawyers on opposing sides at competing firms.

TV Series · 2018 · India

Mirzapur

Crime drama about families fighting to control an illicit business empire in a small city.

TV Series · 2023 · India

Jubilee

Vikramaditya Motwane

Period drama about the building of a film studio in post independence India.

TV Series · 2021 · India

Call My Agent: Bollywood

Comedy drama about a talent agency managing film stars and constant crises.

TV Series · 2019 · India

Four More Shots Please

Comedy drama following four women through careers, ambition and friendship in Mumbai.