- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: William Heinemann (30 July 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0434019550
- ISBN-13: 978-0434019557
- Product Dimensions: 13.6 x 2.2 x 21.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 72,607 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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`Ben has a gift for finding high-energy, strange-but-true tales and THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES is no exception ... You may think you know the story of the Facebook phenomenon, but you haven't heard the whole story and never like this ... Captivating ... THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES is the perfect pairing of author and subject. It's pure summer fun--a juicy, fast-paced, unputdownable Mezrich tale.' --Kevin Spacey
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The fast-paced story of two Ivy-League outcasts who concocted a scheme to meet girls, and ended up inventing Facebook
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Interesting read, if only because we all know facebook.
Not as good as his other books which I highly recommend. To me the prose of this book was just not Mezrich, but perhaps that is because his reference methods had to be different for this?
Not as good as his other books which I highly recommend. To me the prose of this book was just not Mezrich, but perhaps that is because his reference methods had to be different for this?
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
An interesting account of how Facebook was born and some of the battles during its infancy
21 Aug 2009
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Ban Mezrich has written an enjoyable and easy to read account of how Facebook was started by an IT geek Mark Zuckerburg who was a student at Harvard.
The book chronicles the early growth and how the web site grows from being just for Harvard students through its expansion to having several million users.
Most of the book concentrates on the battles that Mark has with one of his co founders Eduardo Saverin, and a pair of other students who asked Mark to work on their web site who end up as Olympic rowers.
The main problem with the book is that Mark Zuckerburg declined to speak to the author about the book. So most of the material is going to have come from the people who are suing or who have sued Mark for what happened after the web site become ultra successful. There are large gaps after Mark leaves Harvard to live in California leaving his fellow co founder in Boston and then New York. The detailed narrative stops in 2005. The author acknowledges that he could not have written the book without Eduardo's help and when the main contributing source is a bitter as Eduardo is after his shareholding is diluted and he is shut out of the business, you have to be slightly sceptical.
The book ignores most of the reasons why Facebook became so successful and all of its recent history. There are a brief couple of pages on the outcome of some of the disputes but to me that's not really enough to give them justice.
The book is written in the same racy style as all of Ben Mezrich's former books, most of which are about gambling or finance. The author has admitted in the introduction that he has adapted some of the situations to make them more readable.
If you are looking for a serious financial history of Facebook, this probably won't be for you. If you are looking something less serious, more exciting and easy to read, this is probably for you
The book chronicles the early growth and how the web site grows from being just for Harvard students through its expansion to having several million users.
Most of the book concentrates on the battles that Mark has with one of his co founders Eduardo Saverin, and a pair of other students who asked Mark to work on their web site who end up as Olympic rowers.
The main problem with the book is that Mark Zuckerburg declined to speak to the author about the book. So most of the material is going to have come from the people who are suing or who have sued Mark for what happened after the web site become ultra successful. There are large gaps after Mark leaves Harvard to live in California leaving his fellow co founder in Boston and then New York. The detailed narrative stops in 2005. The author acknowledges that he could not have written the book without Eduardo's help and when the main contributing source is a bitter as Eduardo is after his shareholding is diluted and he is shut out of the business, you have to be slightly sceptical.
The book ignores most of the reasons why Facebook became so successful and all of its recent history. There are a brief couple of pages on the outcome of some of the disputes but to me that's not really enough to give them justice.
The book is written in the same racy style as all of Ben Mezrich's former books, most of which are about gambling or finance. The author has admitted in the introduction that he has adapted some of the situations to make them more readable.
If you are looking for a serious financial history of Facebook, this probably won't be for you. If you are looking something less serious, more exciting and easy to read, this is probably for you
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This was an inspiring book!
I found it a bit uninteresting at the beginning, at least for people that doesn't know what's coming next, but it surprised me after a few pages!
Brilliant and I do understand why they're making a film of it! :)
I found it a bit uninteresting at the beginning, at least for people that doesn't know what's coming next, but it surprised me after a few pages!
Brilliant and I do understand why they're making a film of it! :)
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Seen the film, seen this. Loved It!
This is one hell of a book by one hell of an author. the book was so good that i am now trying to read the authors entire back catalog of works. Read more
Published 13 months ago by ekb
Very inspirational
It was like reading a story book, very entertaining at the same time inspirational! I've always been dreaming about becoming an entrepreneur myself. So it did the job for me!
Published 15 months ago by Ms. L. Ling
Dull writer makes dull subject dull.
Proof, if ever you needed it, that Aaron Sorkin is a genius. How he turned this dog of a book into something as entertaining and pitch-perfect as The Social Network is a mystery on... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Gaviano
Well written and Informative but lacking
As someone who hasn't seen the film The Social Network [2010] I was interested to get a background to Facebook and the story of where it came from. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Jack Percival
Some day charlaton will be replaced in the OED by "Mezrich"
I cannot believe that this charlaton has got away with it again. It is pretty miserable that people ever believe a word this excuse for a writer puts to paper or for that matter,... Read more
Published 19 months ago by J. F. Bullimore
easy to read summary of how facebook came about
Ben Mezrich's trade is writing about inaccessible subjects with such as easy reading style that his books become page turners. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Copycreate
Too many gaps
`The Accidental Billionaires' is about the inception, founding and development of the website, facebook. It is billed as a story of sex, betrayal and money... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Sarah Durston
Whether true or not, a rattling good yarn for our times
Enjoyed this as a holiday read, as much for the insights into the clubs, cliques and rituals of Harvard as for the way that introverted geniuses with, it is suggested, poor social... Read more
Published on 29 Aug 2009 by MAP
Mezrich Nails It
History, they say, is written by the winners and this account of the genesis of Facebook on the Harvard campus is largely seen through the eyes of computer geek Mark Zuckerberg and... Read more
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