the accidental billionaires by ben mezrich

Urn:lcp:accidentalbillio00mezr_0:epub:9b39042c-60bd-4d70-bc43-d9ba8e9a1a45 Extramarc Duke University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier accidentalbillio00mezr_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3qv4kx0d Isbn 9780385529372Ģ011285187 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary OL24879500M Openlibrary_edition a captivating story of betrayal, vast amounts of cash, and two friends who revolutionized the way humans connect to one another.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:20:11 Boxid IA176401 Boxid_2 CH121525 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Containerid_2 X0008 Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st ed. Ben has a gift for finding high-energy, strange-but-true tales and The Accidental Billionaires is no exception. thrill-packed story Amber Cowan, London Lite Has the perfect dramatic narrative for a Hollywood thriller Time Out A 21st century fable, it unfolds with all the narrative verve of a novel Daily Mail The Accidental Billionaires is at its best when it describes the fraternity-house atmosphere that governs the start-ups early days.a colourful tale EconomistĮven if you've never logged on to Facebook, the premise behind this true story is irresistible. Mezrich's latest focuses on two Harvard students who tried to build an online database of girls.and created Facebook GQ

Read moreīringing Down the House showed geeks outsmarting the casinos. The great irony is that Facebook succeeded by bringing people together - but its very success tore two best friends apart. 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.

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 that all changed when master-hacker Mark crashed the university's entire computer system by creating a rateable database of female students. The fast-paced story of two Ivy-League outcasts who concocted a scheme to meet girls, and ended up inventing FacebookĮduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg - an awkward maths prodigy and a painfully shy computer genius - were never going to fit in at elite, polished Harvard.

The accidental billionaires by ben mezrich