![]() ![]() ![]() He was the first person Zuckerberg talked to about the idea. Mark Zuckerberg may be Facebook’s best-known creator, but Eduardo Saverin was an integral player from the start. Accidental Billionaires, as bloggers and early reviewers have suggested, is also another round of the Boston author's game of hide-and-go-seek with truth.Īt its bottom though, the story is about one kid feeling betrayed by another and trying to reclaim the attention he feels he deserves. It's his second successful Hollywood vehicle (the book comes complete with press clippings describing its progress toward becoming a movie). ![]() ![]() The book is an extension of his now-trademarked brand-a combination of youth, money, prestige, and risk all set to a peppy soundtrack. With his new book, Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal, he attempts to explain why one Facebook guy was hovering around the edges of parties in Cambridge, rather than living it up at Casa Facebook in Palo Alto and building the most exciting company to come out of a dorm room in a long time. Here’s where Ben Mezrich, author of 2002’s bestseller Bringing Down the House, steps in. Didn't they all just leave school and move out to California?” “That's the Facebook guy,” someone would say. ![]()
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