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THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES
By: Ben Mezrich
The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal
Doubleday
July 2009
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Featuring: Mark Zuckerberg; Eduardo Saverin
272 pages
ISBN: 0385529376
EAN: 9780385529372
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
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 friendsโoutsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women. Eduardo figured their ticket to social acceptanceโand sexual successโwas getting invited to join one of the universityโs Final Clubs, a constellation of elite societies that had groomed generations of the most powerful men in the world and ranked on top of the inflexible hierarchy at Harvard. Mark, with less of an interest in what the campus alpha males thought of him, happened to be a computer genius of the first order. Which 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 campusโand 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 followedโa real-life adventure filled with slick venture capitalists, stunning women, and six-foot-five-inch identical-twin Olympic rowersโmakes for one of the most entertaining and compelling books of the year. Before long, Eduardoโs and Markโs different ideas about Facebook created in their relationship faint cracks, which soon spiraled into out-and-out warfare. 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 best friends apart. The Accidental Billionaires is a compulsively readable story of innocence lostโand of the unusual creation of a company that has revolutionized the way hundreds of millions of people relate to one another.
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