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Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook. Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends—outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwar The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women. Mark, with less of an interest in what the campus alpha males thought of him, Money to be a computer genius of the first order. Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook he used to find a more direct route to social stardom: one lonely night, Mark hacked into the university's computer system, creating a ratable database of all the female students on campus—and subsequently crashing the university's servers and nearly getting himself kicked out of school. In that moment, in his Harvard dorm room, the framework for Facebook was born. What followed—a real-life adventure filled with slick venture capitalists, stunning women, and six-foot-five-inch identical-twin Olympic rowers—makes for one of the most entertaining and compelling books of the year. The collegiate exuberance that marked their collaboration fell prey to the adult world of lawyers and money. The great irony is that while Facebook succeeded by bringing people together, its very success tore two The Accidental Billionaires: Sex friends apart. The Accidental Billionaires is a compulsively readable story of innocence lost—and The Accidental Billionaires: Sex the unusual creation of a company that has revolutionized Money way hundreds of millions of people relate The Accidental Billionaires: Sex one another. He is a columnist The Accidental Billionaires: Sex Boston Common and a contributor for The Accidental Billionaires: Sex magazine. Ben lives in Boston with his wife, Tonya. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. Published July 14th by Doubleday first published January 1st More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Accidental Billionairesplease sign up. Be Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook first to ask a question about The Accidental Billionaires. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Mar 20, Elaine rated it did not like it. Listening to audiobook, I could tell from Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook outset that it was going to be terrible. Normally, I'd have quit, but I decided to stick Money it for the story. Soon I realized that I was listening to it for the entertainment value of its badness. The book, seemingly untouched by an editor's hand, is dense with stereotypes, cliches, hyperbole, adolescent fantasies which Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook to be the author's more than those of the main charactersmixed metaphors, inappropriate comparisons, and comical malaprop Listening to audiobook, I could tell from the outset that it was going to be terrible. The book, seemingly untouched by an editor's hand, is dense with stereotypes, cliches, hyperbole, adolescent fantasies which seem to be the author's more than those of the main charactersmixed metaphors, inappropriate comparisons, and comical malapropisms. Just a few examples: A bar in an Italian restaurant is "sidled up to the kitchen. Geeks never have girlfriends; the college elite are always big, blond jocks. The only attractive women The Accidental Billionaires: Sex buxom blonds or Asians. A guy with a "baby face" is, in the next sentence, said to have thick black eyebrows and dark piercing eyes. The main character is "the most brilliant programmer on the planet. Now a year later, I have to say that the terrible book was turned into a terrific movie. View all 10 comments. May 24, Petra-X rated it it was ok Shelves: reviewed. When I read a book that has a great deal of biographical detail and where the subject refuses to co-operate and where there are too many phrases like, 'he must have thought', 'he could have surmised', 'maybe he felt', I think The Accidental Billionaires: Sex even if the author is as well-respected as Mezrich, this is probably a load of balls. Modern society, the media, cannot stand those who refuse to have a publicist, give interviews, employ a stylist and have a dozen employees referred to as 'my people'. It can't stand p When I read a book that has a great deal of biographical detail and where the subject refuses to co- operate and where there are too The Accidental Billionaires: Sex phrases like, 'he must have thought', 'he could have surmised', 'maybe he felt', I think that even if the author is as well-respected as Mezrich, this is Money a load of balls. Money can't stand people who have done something that puts them in the public eye but they don't want the public attention. The The Accidental Billionaires: Sex, journalists, papparazzi, editors all feel that they are entitled to make bucks off these people and need to have good sources of information and they hate those that just want to live a private life. So Zuckerberg always comes off worst. To me, they are fair game for the press. But Zuckerberg Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook a private man, and his privacy should be respected and the envelope not pushed with what he might have thought or surmised, or whether he started Facebook because he was anti-social and bitter having been rejected by some girl or other. Authors like Mezrich rely on The Accidental Billionaires: Sex fact that Zuckerberg probably wouldn't sue, so can continue to write this crap because he couldn't get an interview. Other than that, the book was quite good for a business book, but without Zuckerberg's input and with the all-too-willing input of his enemies, it wasn't ever going to be the definitive book of Facebook. View all 8 comments. Aug 29, Tamoghna Biswas rated it liked it Shelves: autobiography- biographynon-fiction. That one day, the kid with the curly hair struggling through that prepunch party was going to change Eduardo's life more than any Final Club ever could. At least I wouldn't have known of this biography of "Certainly, he had no way of knowing, then or now, that the kid with the curly hair was one day going to take the entire concept of a social network and turn it on its head. At least I wouldn't have known of this biography of Mark Zuckerberg anywhere else, and also wouldn't have bothered to pick up the book if the plot of the movie didn't seem so different from The Accidental Billionaires: Sex story of most rags-to-riches. To me, Zuckerberg always appears to be a quite contradiction to the personality portrayed in this book; in person from his talks I'm aware of he appears quite likeable, well many women do The Accidental Billionaires: Sex a big crush on him, and I think that's quite deservedand not so much of a nerdor an A-hole as his friends Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook him out to be. So the book holds a very alternative shade of Zuckerberg's life guessing it's truewhich is really very intriguing. Also another remarkable aspect of the book is it played equal importance to all the characters, and also the The Accidental Billionaires: Sex friendship of Eduardo and Mark. Too realistic to receive a hard blow, actually. So, if you think of picking up the book, Money suggestion: watch the movie first, then Andrew Garfield and Hesse Eisenberg Money bring a lot more colour to the otherwise eventful-yet-dull novel. View all 6 comments. Aug 23, Greg rated it liked it Shelves: books-i-listened-tobiography. Audio Book Review Number 2. I feel like my audio book choices are sort of bonuses to my reading list. They haven't exactly been books I would probably choose to read, but I have at least a slight curiosity about them. Which is how I came to read this book. I probably could have just watched the movie. For having a story being told in my ear while I ran up and down the streets of Woodside it was entertaining enough. And yes, the story is basically the story of the peripheral players because the most important voice in this whole story is missing. As the introduction and his reputation would suggest, Mark Zuckerberg declined to tell his side of the story. His real stake in the company was putting up a few thousand is this right? Where else would have you have turned a few thousand dollars into 40 million? Also, I never quite understood what his role in the company was. Their money would come from a different form of advertising similar to the model that Google was using down the road from where Zuckerberg and Facebook were holed up in California. The finals club he was a part of was probably a large part of how so many people signed up so quickly. If he had helped them launch the site would it have been the social networking site that everyone would be using today? Probably not, The Accidental Billionaires: Sex probably would have been a more college aimed version of Friendster, if it ever even became anything outside of the Harvard community. I felt like there was something missing in the story of his being ousted from Facebook. There are hints that Parker thought there was a conspiracy at play, but a large portion Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook this story seems to be missing. View 2 comments. Oct 26, Grace rated it did not like it Shelves: cultural-studiesnon-fictionread-infiction. If I could find a way to delete my Facebook account and still remain in contact with my family and close friends, I'd do it after reading this book. I'll start with the story itself. I call it a story because author Ben Mezrich admits that he fictionalized scenes based on eye witness accounts and made up others to fill in gaps. The Accidental Billionaires - Wikipedia

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He tells the story just as sources reported it to him: a touch on the leg. A grasp of the hand. The pair leaving the club. That's it. Any inference from there is your own. But The Accidental Billionaires: Sex, is there ever inference. The page narrative portrays Mark Zuckerberg as a hard-hearted genius with a fetish for Asian women who is not above stealing ideas and turning on his friends in his quest to create the dominant social network. Mezrich, who was criticized for making up characters and scenes in his best-selling book "Bringing Down the House," uses a lengthy author's note to broadcast his reporting methodology. He describes his Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook as a "dramatic narrative account," explaining that he reconstructed The Accidental Billionaires: Sex and even, to the extent that it moved the story forward, entire scenes. Some would call this fiction. But Doubleday has bravely labeled it nonfiction. Or as Mezrich told Fortune. Of course, Mezrich's primary source for a good deal of the material is Eduardo Saverin, a classmate at Harvard College of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Saverin used earnings from smart investments he'd made as an undergraduate to Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook start the site, then called TheFacebook. Long before Saverin connected with Mezrich, however, Money become estranged from Zuckerberg. After Saverin was pushed out of the company, Saverin and Zuckerberg lobbed lawsuits at each other liberally from April until last August when the suits were dismissed. Over the winter Saverin's name was added to Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook Facebook web site as one of the cofounders. At about that time Saverin also stopped talking to Mezrich. Saverin didn't respond to Fortune. Mezrich remembers meeting Saverin Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook chance. This kid wrote an email -- I'm a Harvard senior and I have Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook really fantastic story for Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook -- which of course you hear all the time. But the kid said, 'You know, I've been best friends with these people who founded Facebook, and I want to tell you this story. He wouldn't tell me who Eduardo was at first. It was all kind of secretive. Then Eduardo began to tell me this whole story, and he was clearly upset. Mezrich is quick to add that "Accidental Billionaires" is based on many other interviews and documents. He got lucky, of course, when thousands of pages of court documentation surfaced after Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, also former classmates of the Facebook founder, sued Zuckerberg claiming he stole their idea. One person Mezrich never spoke with is Mark Zuckerberg. Says Mezrich, "There was always this 'Mark might talk to you, Mark might talk to you' thing going on, but in the end Mark decided The Accidental Billionaires: Sex to talk to me, and he made it pretty clear he didn't want any of the people he's involved with talking to me. One of the book's more picaresque characters is Silicon Valley bad boy Sean Parker, the cofounder of music file-sharing service Napster and one of Zuckerberg's boyhood heroes, Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook Mezrich. Mezrich describes The Accidental Billionaires: Sex and Zuckerberg's first meeting in a Manhattan restaurant: "the look on Mark's The Accidental Billionaires: Sex, the sudden flush in his cheeks and the brightness in his eyes. Pure idol worship. Parker did not respond to requests for comment. Often the details Mezrich makes up are juicier than the facts that inspired the scenes. For example, Mezrich believes Zuckerberg had to break into a Harvard residence house to retrieve student data to launch an early forerunner of Facebook. At the start of a chapter, he writes: "He might have gotten what he needed in other ways, we certainly don't know for sure every detail; but we can imagine how it might have gone down So far, even some of the details labeled "fact" in the book have been disputed. Yup, the cuddly marsupial. When excerpts from the book's proposal appeared on Gawker earlier this year, that anecdote was called into question. It wasn't the CEO as Gawker reported. And the funniest email I got after that proposal [leaked], is that the one thing Eduardo wanted to make sure of is [the fact that] it wasn't the CEO it was the COO. That was his main problem with my proposal. Facebook spokesman Elliot Schrage thinks the book is so inaccurate readers will not take it as fact. In fact his own publisher put it best. The Accidental Billionaires: Sex the end, "Accidental Billionaires" is not that damning to Zuckerberg's character. And The Accidental Billionaires: Sex not that true. But much as the story may be more fiction than fact, it may well take its place Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook American culture as Facebook's definitive founding myth, particularly if Hollywood gives it The Accidental Billionaires: Sex full treatment. See all CNNMoney. More from Fortune Will Mmmhops be a hit? NBA confirms L. Subscribe to Fortune. Wal-Mart rules The retail giant tops the Fortune for the second The Accidental Billionaires: Sex in a row. Who else made the list? America's top Tweeters. This group of companies is all about social networking to connect with their customers. The war over Lipitor. The fight over the cholesterol medication is keeping a generic version from hitting the market. What about al Qaeda's finances? Bin Laden may be dead, but the terrorist group he led doesn't need his money. 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