The Accidental Billionaires- Ben Mezrich; pgs 100-180

'The Accidental Billionaires' just keeps getting better. Chapter fourteen starts our with the Wienkelvoss twins discovering an article, in Harvard's Newspaper 'The crimson', praising Computer Whiz 'Mark Zuckerburg' for his creation of a new social networking site for Harvard. The Social Network is called 'Thefacebook.com'. The twins, who thought Zuckerburg had been working for them, finalizing a code for their social site 'Theharvardconnection', were completely surprised and utterly confused at the article the Crimson had printed. Zuckerburg's website was not only up and running, but getting a great deal of attention. Thus far over 900 students had joined in less than two weeks. They could not believe Mark would go behind their backs like this and they immediately informed their layers. Their lawyers sent a cease and desist letter to Zuckerburg basically asking Zuckerburg to remove the site immediately. However, the twins underestimated Mark, he would never take the site down, it was his and no one else's. This is the beginning of the infamous Facebook trials that would follow the cease and desist letter.

This book is in many ways a mirror image to the movie that succeeded it, 'The Social Network'. However, Mezrich has a style of writing that can just as well paint the image of each historical scene in this book as the move has. The book provides much more detail and in my opinion it is more fun to imagine the scenes myself. I am really enjoying this book and even though I have a general idea of how it ends, I am excited to see how Mezrich finishes the story of the accidental billionaires.