The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook by Ben Mezrich, Narrated by Mike Chamerlain (Read via Audible.com)

I only got this book because Leo Laporte was constantly raving about it for many months as a must read. I have to say, I was very delighted. Mezrich dives deep into the founding of Facebook, back to the Harvard days. He tells about the Harvard crew brothers and the Connect U site that was in some respects, sabotaged by Zuckerberg because he dragged his feat for months while he worked on his own competing concepts.

What was the most fascinating is how this book presents Zuckerberg. It really is a rather damming abstract picture. From the way he handled the Connect U stuff to pushing out Eduardo Saverin was very fascinating. While Mezich thinks he was a little bit more a self centered act. I would happened to disagree. From the book, my opinion would be that Zuckerberg acted a bit too privately, remember he was not the most social person in the world. Instead of learning to more follow the community pulse, he more architected his own Matrix of a social graph. This in lies the problem. It just like how Aristotle could not comprehend the crowd nature of setting monetary values on things. It is not not for one person to decide, but the community as a whole to figure it out. Which creates balance.

8/10 a must read for anyone interested the history of the big web 2.0 company.