Friday, April 23, 2010

The Accidental Billionaires(151-196)

Summary
Facebook is becoming so popular that reps from major software companies and VC's are showing up to Mark's classes so that they can sway him into selling Facebook to their companies. Things are also becoming much more difficult in terms of them balancing their school lives with working on the website. Basically, Facebook is becoming a full-time job for everyone involved and with summer approaching they are going to have to find a way to handle it. To add to fuel to the fire, Mark begins to work on another project called the Wirehog and was planning on taking Facebook to California, and Eduardo had been offered an internship in New York. So they decide that Mark will need some help in California, and they find interns that are just as fired up and excited about Facebook to help them in the summer. Meanwhile the twins did not give up on their mission to make Mark pay up for stealing Facebook from them. Nonetheless, Mark still does not pay any attention to them, and he does not respond to any of their letters or their emails. Also, Harvard has washed their hands of the situation which makes them realize that there is really nothing more that they can do.
Once Mark and the rest of the Facebook crew get to California, they meet up with Sean Parker and they decide to allow him to move in with them. This is a move that Eduardo really does not approve of so he decides to freeze their bank accounts, which is a move that he will probably end up regretting.

Quote
"Eduarado was a businessman, and this move was all business" (Mezrich 196).

Reaction
I think that Mezrich uses this statement to show how much Eduarado and Mark's relationship had stopped being a friendship, and more of a business. Overall, I think it shows how flimsy their relationship was from the beginning. Both individuals had become friends because the circumstances that they were in which helped pull them to one another. I think that the climax of this novel is Facebook becoming a hit, and the transitions that each individual is facing because of it. We are approaching the falling action, and I do not think that the end result will be a good one. Especially due to the fact that Edurado froze the Facebook bank account.


1 comment:

  1. besides these backdoor moves, was there any legal action taken against Zuckerberg for Facebook?

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