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Book Description of The Accidental Billionaires
At Harvard, social acceptance and success with the opposite sex had to be applied for. In the absence of family money or innate charisma, misfit and maths prodigy Eduardo Saverin dreamed of joining one of Harvard’s elite Final clubs. His best friend, painfully shy computer genius Mark Zuckerberg, turned instead to his natural talents, hacking into the university’s computer system to create a rateable database of every female student on campus.
Narrowly escaping expulsion after 80% of Harvard’s population voted in just two hours, crashing the entire computer system, Mark and Eduardo together refocused the site into something less controversial – 'The Facebook’ – which spread like a wildfire across campuses around the country. Within months hundreds of thousands of college kids had signed up.
Suddenly Eduardo and Mark were getting nods not just from the female population, but from venture capitalists too. It was then, amidst the dizzying levels of cash and the promise of unbelievable power, that 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.
About the author
Ben Mezrich, a Harvard graduate, has published ten books, including the New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House. He is a columnist for Boston Common and a contributor to Flush magazine.
Ben lives in Boston with his wife, Tonya.
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Details of The Accidental BillionairesTitle:
The Accidental Billionaires (Trade Paperback)
Author:
Ben Mezrich
Publisher:
William Heinemann
ISBN:
0434019550
ISBN-13:
9780434019557
Binding: Trade Paperback Publishing Date: 30/07/09 Language: English No Of Pages: 272
The book The Accidental Billionairesby Ben Mezrich (Author) is published or distributed by William Heinemann[0434019550, 9780434019557].
This particular edition was published on or around 30/07/09.