I Was Right About Mark Zuckerberg
The author of the book that inspired <em>The Social Network</em> reflects on a decade of Mark Zuckerberg’s career.
“Ben Mezrich clearly aspires to be the Jackie Collins of Silicon Valley.”
It was the summer of 2009, and I had just published my book , about the founding of Facebook—which Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher would soon adapt into the Oscar-winning film . I was on my book tour, bouncing from cable-news outlet to cable-news outlet, and at nearly every stop, Mark Zuckerberg’s refutation was waiting for me, passed along by his company’s spokesman, Elliot Schrage. I believed—and still believe—that what I had written was a fair and true telling of Facebook’s origins in a college dorm room, an almost Shakespearean drama involving. When news of
