The Facebook effect the inside story of the company that is connecting the world

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? In 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,...

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Main Author: Kirkpatrick, David, 1953 June 14-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2010.
Edition:1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: the Facebook effect
  • The beginning
  • Palo Alto
  • Social networking and the Internet
  • Fall 2004
  • Investors
  • Becoming a company
  • Fall 2005
  • The CEO
  • 2006
  • Privacy
  • The platform
  • $15 billion
  • Making money
  • Facebook and the world
  • Changing our institutions
  • The evolution of Facebook
  • The future
  • Postscript.