David Kirkpatrick was for many years the senior editor for internet and technology at Fortune magazine. While at Fortune, he wrote cover stories about Apple, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Sun, and numerous other technology subjects. Beginning in 2001, he created Fortune’s Brainstorm conference series. More recently, he organized the Techonomy conference on the centrality of technology innovation for all human activity. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and appears frequently on television, radio, and the Internet as an expert on technology.

《Facebook 效應》的作者近距離地采訪瞭與Facebook相關的人士，其中包括Facebook的創始人、員工、投資人、意嚮投資人以及閤作夥伴，加起來超過瞭130人。這是真切詳實的訪談，更是超級精彩的故事。作者以其細膩的筆觸，精巧的敘事結構，解密瞭Facebook如何從哈佛的宿捨裏萌發，創始人的內訌，權力之爭，如何放棄華盛頓郵報的投資，怎樣爭取到第一個廣告客戶，而第一輪融資又如何獲得一億美元的估值，讓人癡迷的圖片産品如何上綫，麵對Twitter的競爭，與Google的世紀之爭……一個創辦僅7年，就擁有5億活躍用戶，年收入超過5億美元，估值超過200億美元的傳奇企業再加上一個年僅26歲的的“娃娃CEO”，在你麵前“裸奔”。激情澎湃的創業精神，智慧傳奇的融資經曆，一個聚閤世界的社交帝國嚮你徹底開放，你還等什麼？

IN LITTLE MORE THAN HALF A DECADE, Facebook has gone from a dorm-room novelty to a company with 500 million users. It is one of the fastest growing companies in history, an essential part of the social life not only of teenagers but hundreds of millions of adults worldwide. As Facebook spreads around the globe, it creates surprising effects—even becoming instrumental in political protests from Colombia to Iran. Veteran technology reporter David Kirkpatrick had the full cooperation of Facebook’s key executives in researching this fascinating history of the company and its impact on our lives. Kirkpatrick tells us how Facebook was created, why it has flourished, and where it is going next. He chronicles its successes and missteps, and gives readers the most complete assessment anywhere of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the central figure in the company’s remarkable ascent. This is the Facebook story that can be found nowhere else. How did a nineteen-year-old Harvard student create a company that has transformed the Internet and how did he grow it to its current enormous size? Kirkpatrick shows how Zuckerberg steadfastly refused to compromise his vision, insistently focusing on growth over profits and preaching that Facebook must dominate (his word) communication on the Internet. In the process, he and a small group of key executives have created a company that has changed social life in the United States and elsewhere, a company that has become a ubiquitous presence in marketing, altering politics, business, and even our sense of our own identity. This is the Facebook Effect.

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