The Accidental Billionaires - Released Today
July 14, 2009
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal was released today by Doubleday, and its author has written briefly about it at Gloria McDonough-Taub's Bullish on Books blog. From Ben's post: The revolution is here, and it didn't begin with gunfire or bomb blasts - it began with a Status Update. The world as we know it has changed, forever (and in my opinion for the better) and nobody could have foreseen how this revolution was going to go down - not even the group of brilliant, socially awkward kids who made it happen.
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal was released today by Doubleday, and its author has written briefly about it at Gloria McDonough-Taub's Bullish on Books blog. From Ben's post:
The revolution is here, and it didn't begin with gunfire or bomb blasts - it began with a Status Update. The world as we know it has changed, forever (and in my opinion for the better) and nobody could have foreseen how this revolution was going to go down - not even the group of brilliant, socially awkward kids who made it happen. I'm talking, of course, about Facebook.Mezrich writes that Zuckerberg and Saverin started Facebook because, "Really, they just wanted to meet some girls." Ahh, the story of many young men, except this one ends up with the pursuers buried in piles of money. Not a business model likely to be simulated any time soon. You can read the rest of Ben Mezrich's post here.