The Facebook Effect: The Real Inside Story of Mark Zuckerberg and the World's Fastest Growing Company

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Today - six years after it was created in a Harvard dorm room - over 500 million people use Facebook regularly, in just about every country on earth. That a company this powerful and influential was started as a lark by a couple of 19-year-olds makes it a fascinating and surprising tale. That one of them, the visionary Mark Zuckerberg, had the maturity, strategic smarts and luck to keep his company ahead of its rivals anchors the tale.

With exclusive inside access to all the company's leaders David Kirkpatrick tells of the vision, the tenacity, the refusal to compromise, and the vision Zuckerberg has to remake the internet. A brilliant and fascinating cast of characters created Facebook and Kirkpatrick has interviewed all of them. Never before have Zuckerberg and his closest colleagues told what really happened as they built their dynamo while eating fast food, staying up all night, and thumbing their noses at how things are usually done.

Today - six years after it was created in a Harvard dorm room - over 500 million people use Facebook regularly, in just about every country on earth. That a company this powerful and influential was started as a lark by a couple of 19-year-olds makes it a fascinating and surprising tale. That one...

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PRANJAY ARORA
November 25, 2023
BOOK WRITTEN ON MARK ZUCKERBERG -12 CRORE FACEBOOK SUBSCRIBERS GREAT ADVANTAGE FOR AUTHOR EVERY SOCIAL MEDIAšŸ“ŗ ACCOUNT ONLY DROPOUT PROGRAMMER ABLE TO CRACK AD BLOCKER BROWSER
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Koteswararao Annabattula
June 4, 2026
"The Facebook Effect is not just the story of a company- it is the story of how social connection reshaped the modern world". David Kirkpatrick’s The Facebook Effect offers a fascinating look at the rise of Facebook and the vision of Mark Zuckerberg. Through interviews and insider accounts, the book reveals the challenges, ambitions, and innovations behind one of the most influential companies in history. An engaging and insightful read for anyone interested in technology, entrepreneurship.
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Robert Gandy
December 22, 2015
Recommended. It lacks literary nuance but makes up for it in access to Facebook's leadership and profits from the company's transparency.
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About the author

David Kirkpatrick was for many years the senior editor for internet and technology at Fortune magazine. While at Fortune he wrote cover stories about Apple, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Sun, and numerous other technology subjects. More recently he organized the Techonomy conference on the centrality of technology innovation for all human activity. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and appears frequently on television, radio, and the Internet as an expert on technology. He lives in New York.
David Kirkpatrick was for many years the senior editor for internet and technology at Fortune magazine. While at Fortune he wrote cover stories about Apple, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Sun, and numerous other technology subjects. More recently he organized the Techonomy conference on the centrality of...

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