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The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World

The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World

by David Kirkpatrick (Author)

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 384
 Publisher: Simon Schuster
Published: 01 Jun 2010
ISBN 10: 1439102112
ISBN 13: 9781439102114

Media Reviews
Kirkpatrick does the best job yet of making sense of Facebook's founder, 26-year-old Mark Zuckerberg. . . . Is Zuckerberg a genius? A flake? A bit of both? The book explains how his many facets fit together.
--George Anders, Forbes
This is a fantastic book, filled with great reporting and colorful narrative. The human drama of Mark Zuckerberg and his colleagues gives an exciting glimpse of how to launch a game-changing startup.

--Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein: His Life and Universe


Kirkpatrick's amazing reporting details what happens when a hacker culture turns into a multi-billion-dollar firm. Mark Zuckerberg sought to maintain that hacker energy, and it 's fascinating to read what resulted.

--Chris Anderson, editor of Wired and author of The Long Tail


A thoughtful, even-handed analysis of the Web site's impact. . . . The Facebook Effect leaves you with a deep understanding of Facebook, its philosophies and, most startlingly, its power.

--David Pogue, The New York Times Book Review


The Facebook Effect is actually two books in one. One part is the exhaustively reported story of Facebook's founding and meteoric rise to near ubiquity; the other is a thoughtful analysis of its impact.

--Ethan Gilsdorf, The Boston Globe


Engrossing. . . . A detailed and scrupulously fair history of [Facebook].

--Rich Jaroslovsky, Bloomberg Businessweek


Kirkpatrick gives the reader a detailed understanding of how the company grew from a 2004 Harvard dorm-room project into the world's second-most-visited site after Google.

--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times


A fascinating book.

--Dan Fletcher, Time


Kirkpatrick's telling of the early days of Facebook is exciting. . . . His reporting skills are impressive.

--Rachel Metz, Associated Press


Fast-paced. . . . makes for gripping reading.

--G. Pascal Zachary, The San Francisco Chronicle


Kirkpatrick tells a gripping tale of how the company was created and came to such dominance. As someone who followed the story almost from day one, I was still enlightened, entertained and sometimes dumbfounded by the rich detail and juicy goings-on.

--Don Tapscott, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)