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IN LITTLE MORE THAN HALF A DECADE, Facebook has gone from a dorm-room novelty to a company with 500 million users. It is one of the fastest growing companies in history, an essential part of the social life not only of teenagers but hundreds of millions of adults worldwide. As Facebook... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Mark Zuckerberg: Founder and CEO of Facebook
- Sean Parker: First President of Facebook
- Dustin Moskovitz: Co-Founder Facebook
- David Kirkpatrick: Add a description of this character.
- Burton
- Jim Breyer
- Sheryl Sandberg: COO of Facebook
- Matt Cohler
- Sandberg
- Van Natta
- Don Graham: chief executive officer and chairman of the board of The Washington Post Company
- Peter Thiel: an American entrepreneur, hedge fund manager, libertarian and venture capitalist of German descent.
- Reid Hoffman
- Friendster
- Morales
- Ballmer
- Marc Andreessen: Co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser, and co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation. He is also on the board at Facebook.
- Wolf
- Wirehog
- Adam D’angelo
- Hirsch
- Andreessen
- Chris Hughes
- Abrams
- Saverin
- Pincus
- Murdoch: CEO of Fox. At one point, tried to purchase Facebook.
- Reed
- Rothschild
- Obama
- Freston
- Werdegar
- Emmanuel
- Semel
- Napster
- Tom Cruise
- Bill Gates
- Colleran
- Li Ka-shing
- Greenspan
- Dave Morin
Setting & Locations edit
- New York
- Silicon Valley
- Palo Alto
- Harvard
- United States
- San Francisco
- Colombia
- California
- Plaxo
- Los Angeles
- Exeter
- Spain
- Indonesia
- India
- Stanford
- Canada
- Washington
- Madrid
- Columbia
- Zynga
- China
- Germany
- Turkey
- Japan
- Russia
- Asia
- Hong Kong
- Brazil
- Florida
- Kirkland House
- Egypt
- Israel
- Malaysia
- Boston
- Europe
- Beirut
- Princeton
- England
- Chile
- Wall Street
- Dartmouth
- Virginia
First Sentence edit
Sophomore Mark Zuckerberg arrived at his dorm room in Harvard’s Kirkland House in September 2003 dragging an eight-foot-long white board, the geek’s consummate brainstorming tool.
Table of Contents edit
1. The Beginning
2. Palo Alto
3. Social Networking and the Internet
4. Fall 2004
5. Investors
6. Becoming a Company
7. Fall 2005
8. The CEO
9. 2006
10. Privacy
11. The Platform
12. $15 Billion
13. Making Money
14. Facebook and the World
15. Changing Our Institutions
16. The Evolution of Facebook
17. The Future
Authors & Contributors edit
- David Kirkpatrick (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 338.761006754
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