the accidental billionaires by ben mezrich

Zuckerberg in a “James Bond-like lair,” adds an imaginary couple’s sexual tryst to complicate Mr. Zuckerberg’s Eureka moments with such inadvertent hilarity that he uses the words “if Balzac had somehow risen from the dead,” envisions Mr. Zuckerberg has had to make a financial settlement with the founders of a rival Harvard site called ConnectU. Zuckerberg took their first campus walk together.Īnd we know that the facts about the early provenance of (as it was once called) would wind up being debated in courts of law. Mezrich’s creative way of emphasizing the time of year is to write that “a stiff, crisp breeze whipped through the thin material of Eduardo’s shirt” as Mr.

Zuckerberg at a Harvard party in October 2003. Saverin, then a junior, met the “moppet-haired sophomore” who was Mr. Yes, he had done some investing by the time Mr. “You’re the one with the hedge fund, right?” someone asks Mr. Mezrich did clearly have access is Eduardo Saverin, a Harvard contemporary of Mr. Mezrich relied heavily on The Harvard Crimson.) (The last two pages of this 260-page book are devoted to a list of published sources. Zuckerberg is said by this book to be, he turns out to have business cards that say “I’m CEO - Bitch.” That phrase outweighs all 258 pages of Mr. However shy, vague, withdrawn, affectless and computerlike Mr.

In “The Accidental Billionaires” he so enthusiastically favors hot air over specifics that he waits until the end of the book to offer up three little words that speak volumes about Mr. Mezrich started out as a writer of science fiction. It served him lucratively, if not well, in “Bringing Down the House,” the book that became the basis for the film “21” (another story of smart college kids striking it rich in the real world, in that case in Las Vegas casinos). Zuckerberg liked to wear flip-flops in college - is Mr.

And guesswork - long, lyrical, hash-slinging, protracted feats of guesswork, based only glancingly on the rare incontrovertible detail, like the fact that Mr. Mezrich had to do some guesswork about Mr. Most crucially, he didn’t have Mark Zuckerberg, the former Harvard student who is famed for having cooked up the Facebook algorithms and is at the heart of the Facebook story. After all, wild guessing was, or could have been, or possibly seems to have been, Mr. Though we cannot know exactly what went through Ben Mezrich’s mind as he wrote “The Accidental Billionaires,” his nonfictionish book about the creation of Facebook, we can perhaps speculate hypothetically about what it possibly might have been like.

The accidental billionaires by ben mezrich