The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook

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Facebook’s birth as ambition, betrayal, and chaos

If you like startup stories with sharp edges, this one is a gripping ride through ego, friendship, and sudden power. It reads with the speed of a thriller, but what really sticks is watching a dorm-room idea turn into a global force while relationships crack under the pressure. You come away feeling like success here was never clean, simple, or harmless.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook

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ISBN: 9780307740984
Authors: Ben Mezrich
Publisher: Anchor
Date of Publication: 2010-09-28
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Business, History, Biographies & Memoirs
Goodreads rating: 3.59
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National Bestseller. The Social Network, the much-anticipated movie adapted from Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires. Best friends Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg spent many lonely nights looking for a way to stand out among Harvard University’s elite, competitive, and accomplished student body. Then, in 2003, Zuckerberg hacked into Harvard’s computers, crashed the campus network, almost got himself expelled, and was inspired to create Facebook, the social networking site that has since revolutionized communication around the world. With Saverin’s funding, their tiny start-up went from dorm room to Silicon Valley. But conflicting ideas about Facebook’s future transformed the friends into enemies. Soon, the undergraduate exuberance that marked their collaboration turned into out-and-out warfare as it fell prey to the adult world of venture capitalists, big money, and lawyers.
 

Facebook’s birth as ambition, betrayal, and chaos

If you like startup stories with sharp edges, this one is a gripping ride through ego, friendship, and sudden power. It reads with the speed of a thriller, but what really sticks is watching a dorm-room idea turn into a global force while relationships crack under the pressure. You come away feeling like success here was never clean, simple, or harmless.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.