“ exhaustive and well paced history… Levy’s account of Zuckerberg’s abbreviated Harvard tenure and Facebook’s early years feel fresh, with plenty of color that reminds you the HBO show Silicon Valley did not have to reach far for its satire” -NPR The result is evenhanded and devastating.” -San Francisco Chronicle “Levy is the dean of tech writers Facebook’s brass gave him the run of the C-suite. His Facebook book will be a blockbuster, a penetrating account of the momentous consequences of a reckless young company with the power to change the world.”- Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store and The Upstarts Few other writers can harness both access to top figures and critical insight informed by decades of reporting on Silicon Valley.

“Steven Levy is the founding guru of technology journalism. Based on hundreds of interviews inside and outside the company-including seven interviews with Zuckerberg himself-Levy’s sweeping narrative digs deep into the whole story of the company that has changed the world and reaped the consequences. And in light of recent controversies surrounding election-influencing “fake news” accounts, the handling of its users’ personal data, and growing discontent with the actions of its founder and CEO, never has the company been more central to the national conversation.įacebook: The Inside Story is the definitive book on this wildly successful and deeply troubled firm. There is no denying the power and omnipresence of Facebook and its sister apps in American daily life. It has grown into a tech giant, the largest social media platform and one of the most gargantuan companies in the world, with a valuation of more than $576 billion and over 3 billion users, including those on its fully owned subsidiaries, Instagram and WhatsApp. Today, Facebook-now called Meta- is nearly unrecognizable from Zuckerberg’s first, modest iteration. The site caught on like wildfire, and soon students nationwide were on Facebook. In his sophomore year of college, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network.

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