Inside Facebook: the Facebook Book

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Awesome insight. What was great, and what else could make it even greater.

Filed under: Reviews of the book, About the book — by theweb at 9:53 pm on Saturday, October 14, 2006

Facebook is one helluva story, and it’s great to hear a new insight into it.

What did I like:

a) correlation to motivation. How the methods mark and you guys used could be applied to any entrepreneur
b) some interesting pieces. ie- steven chen, mark really going there to grow wirehog,etc.
c) what made the company work. ie- mark and them knowing when to pull the plug, jeff rothschild’s vision.
d) unbiased and raw. I disagree with Liz. I’d rather see it in its current form, then obviously being edited in the manner she suggested and losing some of its realness. I could care less if the writing is perfect, I’m reading it for your story and the knowledge, not to pick out grammatical errors.

What I would have liked to see more of:
a) more information on Mark’s information flow theory. It’s something I personally am interested in.
b) more specific crisis situations ie- holy shit, what just happened.
c) more insight into Mark’s move out to silicon valley
d) more insight into the VC/ business side of things.

-Jason L. Baptiste
CEO of theWeblogWire Inc.

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Comment by Niarcas

October 16, 2006 @ 2:28 am

I agree with Jason in saying that the book is great, despite the grammar and spelling errors. :)

I actually found your book akin to many self-help/marketing books I’ve read in the past, like those by Napolean Hill or Seth Godin.

Even though the book did give great insight, I would like to know more about how Mark met Peter Thiel. That moment seemed very seminal to progressing Mark’s company, much like Andy Bechtolsheim did for Larry and Sergey of Google.

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