#the facebook movie

So I've finally gotten around to watching "The Social Network" mostly due to curiosity as to how it depicted Facebook's founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. I know half of the movie was fiction but the plot was based on the story of Zuck, his Harvard dorm mates and several other guys on campus all doing this cool "start-up thingy". Before Facebook and rival ConnectU, there was MySpace and Friendster in 2004 so the idea wasn't new. His Facebook co-founder, Dustin Moskovitz, is 8 days younger than Mark and owns 6% of the company which is worth $1.4 billion. The title of the book that inspired the movie, The Accidental Billionaires*, now makes sense -- you don't have to be the first or have the most novel idea to really succeed. I think the well-connected Silicon Valley guy Sean Parker, co-founder of Napster and Plaxo, was instrumental in the direction and success of Facebook. The movie has painted Mark Zuckerberg in a very bad light -- very scheming guy who stole other people's ideas and betrayed friends. Note: *The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal Read more in our articles including "Have you seen The Social Network?" and "Facebook launches Your Profile, Your Home game".