

Zuckerberg claimed there was no agreement between him and the three students however, they accused him of stealing their idea for his own benefit.Īs Facebook began to grow, it was obvious that the funding from Saverin could not keep up with expenses. They thought he had agreed to help them build the Harvard Connection, but later found out that he was developing Thefacebook instead. Before launching his site, he wanted to feature photos of girls against farm animals in an offensive contest that would have offended many women and animal rights groups around the world, but decided not to because of concerns from his friends and family members.Ĭameron and Tyler Winklevoss, along with Divya Narendra, recruited Mark Zuckerberg to work on a social networking site. He got into trouble for hacking into Harvard’s computer system and using their bandwidth to create, a website that compares two people and asks users to vote on who is better looking. Many other students at Harvard had the same idea, but they didn’t think of it as well or execute it as effectively as he did.


Mark Zuckerberg thought about creating a social networking site before he created Facebook. This book talks about their friendship and how they came up with ideas together to create Facebook, which would eventually become one of the biggest social networking sites in history. It’s about a young computer whiz kid named Mark Zuckerberg and his friend Eduardo Saverin, who met at Harvard. The Accidental Billionaires is the story of how Facebook was created. 1-Page Summary of The Accidental Billionaires Overview
