Book description
The Lives Less Ordinary series brings you the most exciting,
adventurous and entertaining true-life writing that is out there, for
men who are time-poor but want the best. Lives Less Ordinary
drops you into extreme first-hand accounts of human experience,
whether that's the adrenaline-pumping heights of professional sport,
the brutality of the modern battlefield, the casual violence of the
criminal world, the mind-blowing frontiers of science, or the excesses
of rock 'n' roll, high finance and Hollywood. Lives Less
Ordinary also brings you some of the finest comic voices around,
on every subject from toilet etiquette to Paul Gascoigne.
Six years after it was created, over 500 million people use
Facebook. But it was started as a lark in a Harvard dorm room by a
couple of 19-year-olds. David Kirkpatrick brings you the definitive,
first-hand inside story of how the visionary Mark Zuckerberg had the
maturity, strategic smarts and luck to keep his company ahead of its
rivals, as well as the self-assurance at just 20-years-old to turn
down an offer of million dollars for his fledgling, four-month-old website.
This digital bite has been extracted from David Kirkpatrick's
fascinating book The Facebook Effect.
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.
