The Accidental Billionaires Book Review

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Facebook is the largest social networking website on the internet with more than 600 million users. It’s been a few years since I started using Facebook and I was curious to know about the history of this hugely popular website. I started asking myself questions; who is the founder of Facebook? How did it become a world-wide phenomenon? Luckily a few months back, one of my friends referred me to a book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich published in July, 2009. The Accidental Billionaires consist of 260 pages of pure drama written in a narrative style. The book tells the story of Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook and how he invented Facebook in his Harvard dorm room with his friends. No doubt Zuckerberg’s love for the computers urged him to invent Facebook but the lack of lady friends also forced him to create a browser-based directory of Harvard’s hottest-and-nottest undergrads (though I really don’t know whether Zuckerberg was a pervert when he was studying in Harvard or not). There is another character in the book; Eduardo Saverin, the co-founder of Facebook who is portrayed as a protagonist in Mezrich’s book. I must also remind you that most of the content written in Mezrich’s book is based on Eduardo’s opinion because Mezrich was only able to contact Eduardo after being rejected by Mark Zuckerberg for a meeting. But Eduardo also refused to co-operate with Mezrich after his law suit against his best friend Mark Zuckerberg was settled out of the court. The book focuses on Eduardo and Zuckerberg starting their website thefacebook.com. Zuckerberg handles the programming and Eduardo takes care of the investment. Zuckerberg gets noticed by the Winklevoss brothers and Divya Narendra who are trying to launch a dating site and they approach Zuckerberg to help them. Zuckerberg agrees with them but later Mark sees that website doesn’t go with what

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