Facebook Confidential
You might be an active Facebook user, but how much do you really know about how this Harvard-born company?
With the new book "The Accidental Billionaires," Ben Mezrich goes behind the headlines and hype around the founding of Facebook.
Over at Amazon.com, Kevin Spacey offers up his take on the book:
"Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were two geeky, socially awkward Harvard undergrads who wanted nothing more than to be cool. While Eduardo chose the more straightforward path of trying to gain acceptance into one of the school's ultra-posh, semi-secret Final Clubs, Mark used his computer skills by hacking into Harvard's computers, pulling up all the pictures of every girl on campus to create a sort of 'hot-or-not' site exclusive to Harvard. Though the prank nearly got Mark kicked out of college, he and Eduardo realized that they were on to something big. Thus, the initial concept of Facebook was born; what happened next, however, was right out of a Hollywood thriller."
For Spacey's full review and for more on this book (available July 14), check out the "Accidental Billionaires" page on Amazon.
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