一個哈佛校園的把妹網站，戲劇性的成了全球最大的社交網站，
這其中不僅有宅男出頭天的故事，還充滿了背叛、金錢等好萊塢情節。
這不僅是一個網路崛起的故事，更是一個時代潮流的縮影。
「你可能以為很清楚Facebook的來龍去脈，其實你還沒見到全貌，尤其是這本書所要講的故事。」
－美國金像獎影帝，「美國心、玫瑰情」男主角凱文．史貝西（Kevin Spacey）
25歲的馬克．佐克伯如何打造出今天的Facebook？為何讓人對他又愛又恨？
他是一流的電腦奇才，在某個寂寞的夜晚，就在哈佛大學宿舍房間裡，因為被女伴拒絕的憤怒，造就出Facebook的雛型。
然而這股不顧一切的創業激情，卻淪為成人金錢世界的獵物，使Facebook的壯大過程充滿了驚異與感慨。其中讓人大感諷刺的便是，Facebook雖然因為呼朋引伴而成功，最後卻以反目成仇、老死不相往來為結束。
本書生動地描繪出Facebook的崛起，以及它如何顛覆全球數十億人口溝通模式的驚人內幕。
★本書中譯本《Facebook：性愛與金錢、天才與背叛交織的祕辛》由商周出版
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.
作者簡介
班．梅立克（Ben Mezrich）
畢業於哈佛大學，出版過十本小說，包括以真人真事構思的暢銷小說《贏遍賭城─麻省理工高材生教你橫掃21點》（Bringing Down the House），這本書在紐約時報排行榜入榜長達63週，後來被改編成電影《決勝21點》。
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.
