The collegiate exuberance that marked their collaboration fell prey to the adult world of lawyers and money. Before long, Eduardoâ?s and Markâ?s different ideas about Facebook created in their relationship faint cracks, which soon spiraled into out-and-out warfare. What followedâ?a real-life adventure filled with slick venture capitalists, stunning women, and six-foot-five-inch identical-twin Olympic rowersâ?makes for one of the most entertaining and compelling books of the year. In that moment, in his Harvard dorm room, the framework for Facebook was born.
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 campusâ?and subsequently crashing the university's servers and nearly getting himself kicked out of school. 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. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women.Įduardo figured their ticket to social acceptanceâ?and sexual successâ?was getting invited to join one of the universityâ?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. Soon, the undergraduate exuberance that marked their collaboration turned into out-and-out warfare as it fell prey to the adult world of venture capitalists, big money, lawyers.HTML: The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook.Įduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friendsâ?outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. But conflicting ideas about Facebook’s future transformed the friends into enemies.
With Saverin’s funding their tiny start-up went from dorm room to Silicon Valley. Then, in 2003, Zuckerberg hacked into Harvard’s computers, crashed the campus network, almost got himself expelled, and was inspired to create Facebook, the social networking site that has since revolutionized communication around the world.
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