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The Accidental Billionaires
- The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Professionals & Academics
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Publisher's Summary
The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook.
Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends - outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women.
Eduardo figured their ticket to social acceptance - and sexual success - was getting invited to join one of the university’s Final Clubs, a constellation of elite societies that had groomed generations of the most powerful men in the world and ranked on top of the inflexible hierarchy at Harvard. Mark, with less of an interest in what the campus alpha males thought of him, happened to be a computer genius of the first order.
Which he used to find a more direct route to social stardom: One lonely night, Mark hacked into the university's computer system, creating a ratable database of all the female students on campus - and subsequently crashing the university's servers and nearly getting himself kicked out of school. In that moment, in his Harvard dorm room, the framework for Facebook was born.
What followed - a real-life adventure filled with slick venture capitalists, stunning women, and six-foot-five-inch identical-twin Olympic rowers - makes for one of the most entertaining and compelling books of the year. Before long, Eduardo’s and Mark’s different ideas about Facebook created in their relationship faint cracks, which soon spiraled into out-and-out warfare. The collegiate exuberance that marked their collaboration fell prey to the adult world of lawyers and money. The great irony is that while Facebook succeeded by bringing people together, its very success tore two best friends apart.
The Accidental Billionaires is a compulsively listenable story of innocence lost - and of the unusual creation of a company that has revolutionized the way hundreds of millions of people relate to one another.
Ben Mezrich, a Harvard graduate, has published ten books, including the New York Times best seller Bringing Down the House. He is a columnist for Boston Common and a contributor for Flush magazine. Ben lives in Boston with his wife, Tonya.
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- Charles E. Grant
- 12-24-09
Infotainment, poorly written
This book is too poorly written to be worthwhile novel, and contains too much invention to trust as a non-fiction business biography. I'm as much of a sucker for a business narrative with reconstructed dialogue as anybody, but this books carries that gimmick way too far. The author admits in the introduction that he has simply made up whole conversations and incidents. Long sections consist of Mark Zuckerberg's supposed thoughts and internal dialogue, which is a neat trick since Zuckerberg declined to be interviewed for the book. To be fair, at least some of these sections are clearly labeled as supposition, but it's a darn lazy way to write a biography.
The writing is really over the top: "Dead silence. A moment frozen in time. A single paragraph on a single page in a book that spanned three centuries of pregnant, frozen, moments like this".
Check out "Stealing MySpace" for a similar book which is better written, and has more respect for facts.
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- Maria
- 01-28-10
Ears still bleeding
I work in tech and was looking forward to listening to this book. From the reviews it seems like people either really like this book or hate it. I'm the latter. This book fails on every front; poor writing, bad storytelling and awful narration in which Mr.Chamberlain seems to inflect on every F-word making them seems entirely natural even in a colloquial university setting. The story reads like a raunchy Hollywood Seth Rogen film, is short on facts, and it irks me how he presumes to be in the heads of the characters and tells us what they're "thinking" considering he never even interviewed Mark Zuckerberg. Granted we get a disclaimer before the books starts but everything here is over the top. Waste of my first credit!
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- Kerry
- 10-29-09
Gripping read, after a slow start
I'm used to reading bios of larger tech companies (Apple, Microsoft, Pixar etc) so was excited to get this title about Facebook. However I wasn't prepared for it to be a fiction-based-on-fact work, and for the first chaptor it took me off-guard.
However this quickly became an addictive book, which made me read it faster than many others I've downloaded from Audible. The storyline is interesting, the characters are rich, and the drama will hold you through till the end.
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- Sheil
- 06-15-10
Awful
This book is absolutely awful. The writing is some of the worst I've ever seen. Please don't waste your time and money.
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- Eric
- 01-09-10
Trite and mechanical
A third of the way into the book I couldn't stand any of the people. Trite and nauseating.
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- aldwin
- 01-06-10
Bad reading
I was really interested on the book but was disappointed on how it was read.
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- James
- 10-22-09
Entertaining and Facinating
I can't believe the negitive reviews. This book is great. I loved learning about the founders of Facebook and enjoyed how the author made it a story, not a documentary.
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- Michael
- 07-27-09
Poorly written
I cannot believe how bad this was written. There are continuous passages where the writer talks about how a character is thinking about how the season is turning into spring and the college girls are wearing shorter skits. All the while you are waiting to hear what happened to the latest lawsuit.
Basically it was 1/2 disk worth of facts that the writer turned into 6 CD's worth of material. Listening to this was so hard and the only reason I did not stop was because I wanted to know what happened. But this was the worst CD I ever heard out of 50+
16 people found this helpful
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- Steve
- 10-18-09
Forced listening
Neither fact nor fiction -- I draw the conclusion the author created a lengthy drama from a few facts and then throwing in the stereotypical perspective of hormonal college life.
Do NOT listen to this around children. It is replete with adult language. As read - you get the feeling the narrator enjoys making the F-Bomb stand out.
I would find this book much better if the facts were more prominent and the fiction was considerably less -- more like a documentary.
5 people found this helpful
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- Will
- 09-16-09
Great story, poorly written
This is such an interesting and timely story about something that has changed the world. But the writing is so gratuitous it interferes with hte storytelling. For example, the author's way of identifying two charaters as identical twins..."they were the product of a single fertilized ovum that divided in two like the pages of a book."
The story drags needlessly due to these metaphors and many repeated facts.
Still, worth the read.
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- R. Clegg
- 09-21-10
More interesting than reading facebook
I am not a facebook fan but I am very interested in the invention and behind the scenes adventures of the computer world.
The book took a little bit of getting into and the voice reading it felt a little robotic at times but once you started getting into the story and forgot the voice the experience was pretty good. Really glad I listened to it and got through it but not sure it will be one of my all time great Audio listens.
Looking forward to the film to see how that will work.
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- Therese
- 03-29-10
Don't be deceived - This is really dull!
I was so disappointed with this book. I'm a Ben Mezrich fan and loved Bringing down the House and the movie 21. He's a wizard when it comes to telling stories about the nerdy intelligent geek coming good and turning the tables on everyone. But this - woeful. The story of the invention of Facebook is interesting but it's not James Bond. And no amount of purple prose will inject into it the excitement it needs to make it a truly thrilling book. The subject matter is not life and death, and Ben does a bad job of trying to convince the reader that it is. I found my interest waning half way through and struggled to finish but I did in the end. If this story was told in a more factual, less embellished (just to make it exciting) kind of way it would've worked as a book in itself. This will be a better movie than a work of literary art!