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The Accidental Billionaires
NATIONAL BESTSELLER “ The Social Network , the much anticipated movie…adapted from Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires .” — The New York Times Best friends Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg had spent many lonely nights looking for a way to stand out among Harvard University’s elite, comptetitive, and accomplished student body. Then, in 2003, Zuckerberg hacked into Harvard’s computers, crashed the campus network, almost got himself expelled, and was inspired to create Facebook, the social networking site that has since revolutionized communication around the world. With Saverin’s funding their tiny start-up went from dorm room to Silicon Valley. But conflicting ideas about Facebook’s future transformed the friends into enemies. Soon, the undergraduate exuberance that marked their collaboration turned into out-and-out warfare as it fell prey to the adult world of venture capitalists, big money, lawyers. -
The Facebook Effect
《Facebook 效应》的作者近距离地采访了与Facebook相关的人士,其中包括Facebook的创始人、员工、投资人、意向投资人以及合作伙伴,加起来超过了130人。这是真切详实的访谈,更是超级精彩的故事。作者以其细腻的笔触,精巧的叙事结构,解密了Facebook如何从哈佛的宿舍里萌发,创始人的内讧,权力之争,如何放弃华盛顿邮报的投资,怎样争取到第一个广告客户,而第一轮融资又如何获得一亿美元的估值,让人痴迷的图片产品如何上线,面对Twitter的竞争,与Google的世纪之争……一个创办仅7年,就拥有5亿活跃用户,年收入超过5亿美元,估值超过200亿美元的传奇企业再加上一个年仅26岁的的“娃娃CEO”,在你面前“裸奔”。激情澎湃的创业精神,智慧传奇的融资经历,一个聚合世界的社交帝国向你彻底开放,你还等什么? 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 spreads around the globe, it creates surprising effects—even becoming instrumental in political protests from Colombia to Iran. Veteran technology reporter David Kirkpatrick had the full cooperation of Facebook’s key executives in researching this fascinating history of the company and its impact on our lives. Kirkpatrick tells us how Facebook was created, why it has flourished, and where it is going next. He chronicles its successes and missteps, and gives readers the most complete assessment anywhere of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the central figure in the company’s remarkable ascent. This is the Facebook story that can be found nowhere else. How did a nineteen-year-old Harvard student create a company that has transformed the Internet and how did he grow it to its current enormous size? Kirkpatrick shows how Zuckerberg steadfastly refused to compromise his vision, insistently focusing on growth over profits and preaching that Facebook must dominate (his word) communication on the Internet. In the process, he and a small group of key executives have created a company that has changed social life in the United States and elsewhere, a company that has become a ubiquitous presence in marketing, altering politics, business, and even our sense of our own identity. This is the Facebook Effect. 点击链接进入中文版: Facebook 效应 -
The Facebook Effect
《Facebook 效应》的作者近距离地采访了与Facebook相关的人士,其中包括Facebook的创始人、员工、投资人、意向投资人以及合作伙伴,加起来超过了130人。这是真切详实的访谈,更是超级精彩的故事。作者以其细腻的笔触,精巧的叙事结构,解密了Facebook如何从哈佛的宿舍里萌发,创始人的内讧,权力之争,如何放弃华盛顿邮报的投资,怎样争取到第一个广告客户,而第一轮融资又如何获得一亿美元的估值,让人痴迷的图片产品如何上线,面对Twitter的竞争,与Google的世纪之争……一个创办仅7年,就拥有5亿活跃用户,年收入超过5亿美元,估值超过200亿美元的传奇企业再加上一个年仅26岁的的“娃娃CEO”,在你面前“裸奔”。激情澎湃的创业精神,智慧传奇的融资经历,一个聚合世界的社交帝国向你彻底开放,你还等什么? 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 spreads around the globe, it creates surprising effects—even becoming instrumental in political protests from Colombia to Iran. Veteran technology reporter David Kirkpatrick had the full cooperation of Facebook’s key executives in researching this fascinating history of the company and its impact on our lives. Kirkpatrick tells us how Facebook was created, why it has flourished, and where it is going next. He chronicles its successes and missteps, and gives readers the most complete assessment anywhere of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the central figure in the company’s remarkable ascent. This is the Facebook story that can be found nowhere else. How did a nineteen-year-old Harvard student create a company that has transformed the Internet and how did he grow it to its current enormous size? Kirkpatrick shows how Zuckerberg steadfastly refused to compromise his vision, insistently focusing on growth over profits and preaching that Facebook must dominate (his word) communication on the Internet. In the process, he and a small group of key executives have created a company that has changed social life in the United States and elsewhere, a company that has become a ubiquitous presence in marketing, altering politics, business, and even our sense of our own identity. This is the Facebook Effect. 点击链接进入中文版: Facebook 效应 -
像扎克伯格一样思考
社交帝国天才CEO、互联网思维标志性先锋、社交网络时代最具影响力的人物,他就是马克·扎克伯格。本书 扎克伯格 扎克伯格 将由社会商业领域的开拓者,为您讲述扎克伯格改变世界的五大成功准则,让互联网思维的碰撞,助你获取灵感、洞悉世事,建立独树一帜的公司,引领长期赢利和成长。在这个世界留下自己的印记。 他的故事并不是传奇,因为他的成功可以复制。 19岁创建脸谱网并将其发展为史上最伟大的公司之一;用不到10年的时间将地球上1/7的人口联系在一起;斥资190亿美元收购WhatsApp……无论你是学生、创业者,还是公司高层、老板,本书你都不可不读。 -
The Accidental Billionaires
The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook. Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends–outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women. Eduardo figured their ticket to social acceptance–and sexual success–was getting invited to join one of the university’s Final Clubs, a constellation of elite societies that had groomed generations of the most powerful men in the world and ranked on top of the inflexible hierarchy at Harvard. Mark, with less of an interest in what the campus alpha males thought of him, happened to be a computer genius of the first order. Which he used to find a more direct route to social stardom: one lonely night, Mark hacked into the university's computer system, creating a ratable database of all the female students on campus–and subsequently crashing the university's servers and nearly getting himself kicked out of school. In that moment, in his Harvard dorm room, the framework for Facebook was born. What followed–a real-life adventure filled with slick venture capitalists, stunning women, and six-foot-five-inch identical-twin Olympic rowers–makes for one of the most entertaining and compelling books of the year. Before long, Eduardo’s and Mark’s different ideas about Facebook created in their relationship faint cracks, which soon spiraled into out-and-out warfare. The collegiate exuberance that marked their collaboration fell prey to the adult world of lawyers and money. The great irony is that while Facebook succeeded by bringing people together, its very success tore two best friends apart. The Accidental Billionaires is a compulsively readable story of innocence lost–and of the unusual creation of a company that has revolutionized the way hundreds of millions of people relate to one another. Ben Mezrich, a Harvard graduate, has published ten books, including the New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House . He is a columnist for Boston Common and a contributor for Flush magazine. Ben lives in Boston with his wife, Tonya. -
打造Facebook
《打造Facebook》新书发布会,王淮与读者面对面,活动链接:http://www.douban.com/event/18166913/ 这本书的书名——《打造Facebook:亲历Facebook爆发的5年》很嚣张,谁有资格可以说这句话呢,当然,扎克伯格最有资格,但他不会亲自来告诉你,至少从目前的情况来看,近几年都不大可能。而且,这不是一个人的公司。里面的每一人,尤其是工程师,既是公司文化的承受者,同时 也在不断的改造着公司的文化。我想强调的是团队,是团队的力量打造了Facebook。而让团队凝聚在一起并充满战斗力的,即其文化。这种文化,包括一些做事的方式,为什么这么做的原因,和对这些做法和原因的认同。写这本《打造Facebook:亲历Facebook爆发的5年》,是想剖析Facebook文化的精髓,还有这里面的思考过程和前后的变化,详细解释当中最有价值和最值得学习的那几点。尤其作为早期员工,我们奠定了这些文化的基础。