The Accidental Billionaires: Sex, Money, Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook

I listened to this book over a period of 5 days.

Every time I had a break from my busy schedule, which is not a lot, I listened to the book.



It is very enlightening. I was happy to learn all the details of the Facebook story.

I had already watched the movie "The Social Network" and this book filled in all the gaps. It also helped to put everything into context and to clear up any exaggerations from the movie.

It is a very worthwhile book to listen to especially for anyone who is interested in knowing how life events shape the world.

I'm not saying its not good just that its not history, there's a lot of speculation. And guess work involved, but all in all its quite good, give an interesting view of the early history of one of the world most used website

Ben Mezrich has drawn together interesting material to produce this account. I knew that Facebook had begun its life as a device for male students to rate female students at Harvard, but not its really 'on the legal edge' origins. Mezrich allows us to reflect on the people and the purposes behind the product, and its influences way, way, beyond the origins, and the costs of 'free to use' services (well, who does fund the servers?). This book is excellently read by Mike Chamberlain, who manages to keep a fresh and interested tone throughout. This is a very good listen.

It is an interesting story that I wanted to know about out of curiosity but would not say that it left me spellbound.
The narrator did not bring characters to life. I had to pay really attention.

Great insight in to the foundation of facebook. I found the book much better than the movie.