The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World
by David Kirkpatrick
Recommended by Drew Houston and Dustin Moskovitz
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Reading The Facebook Effect feels like sitting through a long, access-driven profile of a company racing from dormroom experiment to global platform. Its useful part is a granular chronology and inside anecdotes that explain decisions, product rollouts, and growth inflection points that shaped a fast-scaling tech firm. The main limitation is authorial proximity: the narrative sometimes softens criticism and lingers on corporate personalities and timelines, which can read like public-relations-friendly storytelling rather than a hard critical analysis.
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The inside story of Facebook, told with the full, exclusive cooperation of founder Mark Zuckerberg and the company's other leaders. IN LITTLE MORE THAN HALF A DECADE, Facebook has gone from a dormroom 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...
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