Objective Summary #2: Behind Every Great Fortune There is a Great Crime

  In the second section of The Accidental Billionaires: The Founders of Facebook, the author, Ben Mezrich explains the story of how Mark Zuckerberg potentially used Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss's idea of a social network to create Facebook . Zuckerberg was originally assigned the job of programming Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss's website known as the "Harvard Connection". The Harvard Connection had the basic idea of putting Harvard's social life online to allow boys and girls to meet without leaving their dorms. Mezrich points out that this website could only be successful if Mark Zuckerberg programmed it. The brothers believe that Zuckerberg is on their team until he stops returning calls and showing up to meetings. Mezrich then goes on to explain how the twins and Divya, the marketer, decide to search for a new programmer in the replacement of Zuckerberg. While they are searching, Zuckerberg and Eduardo are secretly creating their own version of a social network, now known as Facebook. Mezrich then focuses on how Zuckerberg and Eduardo spent a lot of time on the layout of Facebook including color scheme and profile pages. The section concludes with the Zuckerberg and Eduardo launching their final project to the internet.

Mezrich, Ben. The accidental billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a tale of sex, money, genius and betrayal. New York: Doubleday, 2009. Print.

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss

Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo