Accidental Billionaires: Sex, Money, Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook

Accidental Billionaires: Sex, Money, Betrayal And The Founding Of FacebookEduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg - an awkward maths prodigy and apainfully shy computer genius - were never going to fit in at elite,polished Harvard. Yet that all changed when master-hacker Mark crashed theuniversity's entire computer system by creating a rateable database offemale students. Narrowly escaping expulsion, the two misfits refocused thesite into something less controversial - 'The Facebook' - and watched as itspread like a wildfire across campuses around the country, along with theirpopularity. Yet amidst the dizzying levels of cash and glamour, as siliconvalley, venture capitalists and reams of girls beckoned, the first cracksin their friendship started to appear, and what began as a simple argumentspiralled into an out-and-out war. The great irony is that Facebooksucceeded by bringing people together - but its very success tore two bestfriends apart.