Book description
Today - six years after it was created in a Harvard dorm room - over
500 million people use Facebook regularly, in just about every country
on earth. That a company this powerful and influential was started as
a lark by a couple of 19-year-olds makes it a fascinating and
surprising tale. That one of them, the visionary Mark Zuckerberg, had
the maturity, strategic smarts and luck to keep his company ahead of
its rivals anchors the tale.
With exclusive inside access to all the company's leaders David
Kirkpatrick tells of the vision, the tenacity, the refusal to
compromise, and the vision Zuckerberg has to remake the internet. A
brilliant and fascinating cast of characters created Facebook and
Kirkpatrick has interviewed all of them. Never before have Zuckerberg
and his closest colleagues told what really happened as they built
their dynamo while eating fast food, staying up all night, and
thumbing their noses at how things are usually done.
David Kirkpatrick was for many years the senior editor for internet
and technology at
Fortune
magazine. While at
Fortune
he wrote cover stories about Apple, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Sun, and
numerous other technology subjects. More recently he organized the
Techonomy conference on the centrality of technology innovation for all
human activity. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and
appears frequently on television, radio, and the Internet as an expert
on technology. He lives in New York.
