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The Accidental Billionaires audiobook
- By: Ben Mezrich
- Narrator: Mike Chamberlain
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Science & Technology
- Length: 3 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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The Accidental Billionaires Audiobook 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 readable 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 bestseller 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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The Accidental Billionaires Full Details
| Narrator | Mike Chamberlain |
| Length | 3 hours 17 minutes |
| Author | Ben Mezrich |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 30, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780739383599 |
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The publisher of the The Accidental Billionaires is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: baseball, engineer gifts, science, Betrayal, sex, Sheryl Sandberg, meta, new york time best sellers 2022, autobiography, finance books, finance, computers, economics books, corporations, money, autobiographies, capitalism, business books, biographies, technology, biography, business, economics, facebook, the accidental billionaires, ben mezrich, mark zuckerberg, facebook book, fulfillment, michael lewis, billion dollar loser, technology books, bill gates books, facebook books, strategy, american history, economy, engineering, Biography & Autobiography, Science & Technology, Business & Economics, Corporate & Business History, Technology & Engineering, Social Aspects The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Science & Technology
Additional info
The publisher of the The Accidental Billionaires is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780739383599.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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