- Title:
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The Accidental Billionaires
- Written by:
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Ben Mezrich
- Read by:
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Mike Chamberlain
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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6
- Duration:
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7 hours 24 minutes
- Published:
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November 01 2010
- Available Date:
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November 01 2010
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781742675336
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Business; eBusiness; Entrepreneurs
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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"High-octane page-turners, replete with sex, skullduggery and plot twists worthy of James Patterson."
The New York Times
"A captivating story of betrayal, vast amounts of cash, and two friends who revolutionized the way humans connect to one another - only to have an enormous falling out and never speak again."
Kevin Spacey
You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.
Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg - an awkward maths prodigy and a painfully shy computer genius - were never going to fit in at elite, polished Harvard. Yet that all changed when master-hacker Mark crashed the university’s entire computer system by creating a rateable database of female students. Narrowly escaping expulsion, the two misfits refocused the site into something less controversial - The Facebook - and watched as it spread like a wildfire across campuses around the country, along with their popularity.
Yet amidst the dizzying levels of cash and glamour, as Silicon Valley, venture capitalists and reams of girls beckoned, 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.
"You may think you know the story of the Facebook phenomenon, but you haven’t heard the whole story and never like this. Recreating the unbelievable rise of the world's biggest social network—not to mention the planet's youngest billionaire, Mark Zuckerberg—Ben tells a captivating story of betrayal, vast amounts of cash, and two friends who revolutionized the way humans connect to one another—only to have an enormous falling out and never speak again.
Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were two geeky, socially awkward Harvard undergrads who wanted nothing more than to be cool. While Eduardo chose the more straightforward path of trying to gain acceptance into one of the school's ultra-posh, semi-secret Final Clubs, Mark used his computer skills by hacking into Harvard's computers, pulling up all the pictures of every girl on campus to create a sort of "hot-or-not" site exclusive to Harvard. Though the prank nearly got Mark kicked out of college, he and Eduardo realized that they were on to something big. Thus, the initial concept of Facebook was born; what happened next, however, was right out of a Hollywood thriller.
The Accidental Billionaires is the perfect pairing of author and subject. It's pure summer fun—a juicy, fast-paced, unputdownable Mezrich tale that adds to his canon of lad lit. If the book is any indication, the film is going to be a must see."
Kevin Spacey
"Mezrich’s prose has a cinematic flavor."
The Boston Globe
"Uproarious. . . . Stimulating enough to keep even an unmedicated narcoleptic awake."
The Washington Times