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Fresh Pick / February 26, 2011

October 2010 On Sale: September 28, 2010 Featuring: Mark Zuckerberg; Eduardo Saverin 272 pages ISBN: 0307740986 EAN: 9780307740984 Paperback (reprint) $12.00 Add to Wish List Non-Fiction Biography, Fiction Media Tie-In Buy at Amazon.com 500 million friends has to mean something The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook by Ben Mezrich A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal “The Social Network, the much anticipated movie…adapted from Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires.” —The New York Times Best friends Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg had spent many lonely nights looking for a way to stand out among Harvard University’s elite, comptetitive, and accomplished  student body. Then, in 2003, Zuckerberg hacked into Harvard’s computers, crashed  the campus network, almost got himself  expelled, and was inspired to create Facebook, the social networking site that has since revolutionized communication around the world. With Saverin’s funding their tiny start-up went from dorm room to Silicon Valley. But conflicting ideas about Facebook’s future transformed the friends into enemies. Soon, the undergraduate exuberance that marked their collaboration turned into out-and-out warfare as it fell prey to the adult world of venture capitalists, big money, lawyers. Excerpt Chapter 1 October 2003 It was probably the third cocktail that…