The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal Study Guide & Plot Synopsis

The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal Plot Summary

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"The Accidental Billionaires - The Founding of Facebook," by Ben Mezrich, is the story of boy genius and computer whiz Mark Zuckerberg and how he took the idea of a social networking site to heights that no one else ever imagined. Eduardo Saverin was a senior at Harvard when he met a young sophomore with a mop of curly hair, a faraway look in his eyes and regardless of weather or occasion, always wore cargo shorts, a hoodie, and Adidas flip-flops. The kid already had a reputation as a computer genius. He had created an Internet version of the board game Risk and a program for Harvard students called Cross-Match which would allow students to find out who was registered for what classes.

Zuckerberg had been thinking about social networking site for some time but so had dozens of other Harvard students. After being rejected by a girl one night,...
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