The Accidental Billionaires: Sex, Money, Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook by Ben Mezrich

Friendship And Ambition Collide In Facebook's Early Days

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Ben Mezrich tells the dramatic story of Facebook's beginnings, following Harvard students Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin as a campus project grows into something far larger than they imagined. What starts amid student ambition and social insecurity soon attracts money, influence and the attention of people beyond the university. As the site expands, competing visions of its future place increasing pressure on the relationships behind it. Mezrich's narrative brings together the excitement of rapid success and the bitterness of disputes over recognition, ownership and loyalty. The result is an account of a business whose purpose was to connect people, even as its creation drove friends apart.