The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal - Softcover

Mezrich, Ben

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0307740986 ISBN 13: 9780307740984

Publisher: Anchor Books, 2010

Synopsis

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"The Social Network, the much anticipated movie...adapted from Ben Mezrich's book The Accidental Billionaires." --The New York Times

Best friends Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg had 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.

About this title

Review:

"Uproarious. . . . Stimulating enough to keep even an unmedicated narcoleptic awake."
--The Washington Times

"Mezrich's prose has a cinematic flavor."
--The Boston Globe

"You won't be able to put the book down. The story's far too compelling, and entirely too personal, to toss aside."
--The Oregonian

Book Description:

The fast-paced story of two Ivy-League outcasts who concocted a scheme to meet girls, and ended up inventing Facebook

About this edition

• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0307740986
• ISBN 13: 9780307740984
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272