Mark Zuckerberg Success Story
Upon examining the cover of The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A story of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal, one sees two martini glasses and a brassiere thrown carelessly on the floor. The cover gives a look into the world of Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin, the founders of Facebook. The author, Ben Mezrich, tells the true story with help of Eduardo Saverin of how Facebook was started and how it became a dorm room experiment worth over 15 billion dollars. Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin met in a fraternity related function while freshmen at Harvard. Mark Zuckerberg had the privilege of being extremely smart while Eduardo Saverin was very outgoing and likable.
They stared at one another across the room as Eduardo was talking up a storm and Zuckerberg was being a wallflower. The two ended up talking and becoming unlikely friends. Saverin revealed that he was trying becoming a member of the revered Pheonix, a social fraternity at Harvard University that threw the best parties. Zuckerberg proved to have a distinctive character and sense of humour, never really revealing his true thoughts or emotions. Since Saverin was the social one and Zuckerberg was painfully introverted, Saverin found a couple of girls for them to go out with one night. Both college men were intrigued in getting girls, but Zuckerberg didn't know how to go about approaching them.
The four people went on a double date, and Mark was shot down and left the date extremely angered. The girl had no interest in him at all. He decided he'd use his computer science degree and overwhelming knowledge of the internet and programming to get back at the girls of Harvard. Zuckerberg started by hacking into the university's dorm rosters and uploading images of every person on campus into his computer. He originally understood to place the pictures of all of the girls next to a picture of a farm animal to really insult them.
However, he decided against the idea and ended up making a system where people could rate guys and girls on their hotness. He called the site Facemash. The site was largely successful as people emailed the site to everybody they know and there were thousands of visitors in only one day. Mark never imagined this site would blow up as it'd and knew that he can be facing some legal issues. Girls and men all over Harvard's campus were angry that individuals were rating them on how hot, or not, they were. Harvard's review board ended up talking to Zuckerberg privately where he told the board that he never intended any harm, and the web site was rapidly removed from the web. He was let off the hook, but couldn't cause anymore trouble.