The Facebook Effect
In little more than 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, an essential part of the social life not only of teenagers but hundreds of millions of adults worldwide. As Facebook spreads around the globe, it creates surprising effectseven becoming instrumental in political protests from Colombia to Iran. Veteran technology reporter David Kirkpatrick had the full cooperation of Facebook's key executives in researching this fascinating history of the company and its impact on our lives. Kirkpatrick tells us how Facebook was created, why it has flourished, and where it is going next. He chronicles its successes and missteps, and gives readers the most complete assessment anywhere of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the central figure in the company's remarkable ascent. This is the Facebook story that can be found nowhere else. 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? Kirkpatrick shows how Zuckerberg steadfastly refused to compromise his vision, insistently focusing on growth over profits and preaching that Facebook must dominate (his word) communication on the Internet.
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- Please don't consider the facts-loose movie based on the tabloid hit piece as history. It's a great movie, but it intentionally washes the story out in ways make the characters look absolutely horrible.
I highly recommend The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick. It's a great read and a far more accurate book on the history of Facebook and who Mark Zuckerberg really is. https://www.amazon.com/Facebook-Effect-Inside-Company-Connec...
- The recommended reading from the final slide:
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things
- Zero to One (CS 138A)
- The Facebook Effect
- The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
- The Tao of Leadership
- Nonviolent Communication
- It's easy to say now that this mass Myspace migration happened, but its downfall was much more than Facebook showing up. e.g., It had a ton of technical issues, and it got really ugly / unwieldy.
If you're interested, the book "The Facebook Effect" does a good job describing the fall of Myspace.
- The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick (The real story and not movie version of Facebook) very good
- _The Ecclesiastes_ by Solomon, from The Bible
_Start From Scratch_ by Wes Moss
_The Facebook Effect_ by David Kirkpatrick
_The Millionaire Mind_by Thomas J. Stanley
_Secrets of the Millionaire Mind_T. Harv Eker
- The books I most highly recommend that I read recently include, in no particular order:
- Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good, by Sarah Lacey.
- Founders at Work, by YC's own Jessica Livingston
- The Facebook Effect, by David Kirkpatrick
I'll list some others as I think of them, but those are my three most favorite recent reads.
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