Accidental Billionaires

Sex, Money, Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook

AvBen Mezrich

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Engelska, 2009

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Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg - an awkward maths prodigy and a painfully shy computer genius - were never going to fit in at elite, polished Harvard. Yet that all changed when master-hacker Mark crashed the university's entire computer system by creating a rateable database of female students. Narrowly escaping expulsion, the two misfits refocused the site into something less controversial - 'The Facebook' - and watched as it spread like a wildfire across campuses around the country, along with their popularity.Yet amidst the dizzying levels of cash and glamour, as silicon valley, venture capitalists and reams of girls beckoned, the first cracks in their friendship started to appear, and what began as a simple argument spiralled into an out-and-out war. The great irony is that Facebook succeeded by bringing people together - but its very success tore two best friends apart.

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Utgivningsdatum:2009-11-24
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781409069508
Förlag:Cornerstone

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Ben Mezrich is the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House in addition to many other books, both fiction and non-fiction. The major motion picture 21, starring Kevin Spacey, was based on Bringing Down the House. The Oscar-winning film The Social Network was adapted from The Accidental Billionaires. Mezrich lives in Boston with his wife and son.

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"Pure summer fun ... Juicy, fast-paced, unputdownable ... Ben has a gift for finding high-energy, strange-but-true tales and The Accidental Billionaires is no exception ... [It is] a captivating story of betrayal, vast amounts of cash, and two friends who revolutionized the way humans connect to one another." -- Kevin Spacey "Has the perfect dramatic narrative for a Hollywood thriller" Time Out "You'll be utterly enthralled" News of the World "Even if you've never logged on to Facebook, the premise behind this true story is irresistible ... A 21st century fable, it unfolds with all the narrative verve of a novel" Daily Mail "Mezrich... paints the drama in lurid colour...[a] thrill-packed story" -- Amber Cowan London Lite