The Facebook effect : the inside story of the company that is connecting the world
by Kirkpatrick, David, 1953 June 14-
Summary
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,... Full description
- 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.