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The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal (Hardcover)

By: Ben Mezrich (Author)


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"[W]hat's clear now with ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES is that rather than let criticism of his style nudge him toward either straight fiction or painstakingly reported narrative nonfiction, Mezrich is more determined than ever to create his own category, where fiction and nonfiction coexist not only in the same book and same page, but in the same sentences."

"THE CCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES is so obviously dramatized, and so clearly unreliable, that there's no mistaking it for a serious document....Mr. Mezrich really is a vigorous storyteller in his crass, desperately cinematic way."

"Mezrich forsakes the tech and business aspects of the story for a sort of Geeks Gone Wild spin, heavy on...scandal and soap opera."

Publisher's note

The bestselling author of "Bringing Down the House" pens the incredible true story of the accidental creation of Facebook, and the even more amazing tale of what followed.
Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends-outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and longtime legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with the opposite sex. The two figured their ticket to social acceptance-and sexual success-was getting invited to join one of Harvard's elite final clubs. But on their road to getting punched into the famous Phoenix Club, they found an even more valuable ticket to social stardom-one lonely night Mark Zuckerberg hacked into the university's computer system, creating a ratable database of all the female students on campus, subsequently crashing the university's servers, and nearly getting himself kicked out of school. In that moment, in his spartan Harvard dorm room, the barebones framework for Facebook was born.
What followed-a real-life adventure filled with unimaginable wealth, sex, exotic locales, six-foot-five identical-twin Olympic rowers, and betrayal-makes for one of the most entertaining and compelling books of the year. The great irony is that Facebook succeeded by bringing people together-while at the same time, it tore two best friends apart.

Annotation

Ben Mezrich has found a comfortable niche in the nonfiction market with his lurid tales of brilliant young mavericks who use their preternatural intelligence to hatch morally questionable schemes which earn them ridiculous amounts of money. His latest venture documents the rise and divide of Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg, a pair of Harvard geeks who transformed their desire for female companionship into one of the most popular and profitable websites on the planet--Facebook. As Mezrich tells the tale, the initial stages of Facebook were Saverin and Zuckerberg's attempts to create a database of all the female students at Harvard, but they soon realized that the format they had created had almost limitless possibilities for allowing people to connect online. Sadly, as the popularity of the site increased exponentially and the revenue started to pour in, the once insignificant differences between the two friends became magnified and they were soon seeing each other only from opposite sides of a courtroom. Mezrich effortlessly negotiates the reader through this astonishing modern saga of technology and greed.



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