Send us Fan Mail On Feb. 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg and friends released thefacebook.com to their Harvard classmates. In a week, they had nearly 5k members. By early April, they’d launched at ten more universities, and those students were just as addicted as Harvard’s. Mark was a hero Wizkid, Eduardo Saverin had made the smartest investment of his life, and they had groupies. So how’d Mark end up with two separate lawsuits – one from his alleged best friend and business partner? In 2010, The Social Network depicted the meteoric rise and tabloid-busting drama of it all. Based on the book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich, it was an instant hit and swept awards season. But was it the truth? Or 85% exaggeration and 15% perjury? This is Part 2 of the allegedly mostly true story of how Facebook became the biggest social media platform in the world and made a bunch of frat bros tech-bro-billionaires. Allegedly. Research Resources Part 2 (See Part 1 for Rest of List): “Mark Zuckerberg’s Brutal Prank On Sequoia,” Business Insider “Facebook Creator to Debut Wirehog,” The Harvard Crimson “Wirehog, Zuckerberg’s Side Project That Almost Killed Facebook,” TechCrunch “Zuckerberg Programs New Website,” The Harvard Crimson “Facebook’s First President Sean Parker Left Company After a Scandal,” Business Insider “How Sean Parker Bounced Back...,” Business Insider “With a Little Help From His Friends,” Vanity Fair “Power Play...,” VentureBeat “Sean Parker: Agent of Disruption,” Forbes “Mark E. Zuckerberg ’06: The Whiz Behind Thefacebook.com,” The Harvard Crimson “Ten Years After Facebook, Divya Narendra Continues to Innovate,” Forbes “ConnectU Faces Skeptical Judges in Facebook Appeal,” Phys.Org “Our CEO Divya Narendra on Building SumZero in the Midst of the Credit Crisis,” SumZero Headlines “There’s a Lot You Don’t Know About Divya Narendra,” The Harvard Crimson: Fifteen Minutes “Judge Ends Facebook’s Feud With ConnectU,” The New York TImes “ConnectU’s ‘Secret’ $65 Million Settlement With Facebook,” The New York Times “The Social Network,” Aaron Sorkin “Facebook’s Settlement With Winklevosses Upheld,” CSB News “Winklevoss Twins Addicted to Facebook and Litigation,” Forbes “Not Over: Winklevoss Twins File New Suit Against Facebook,” NPR “Winklevoss Twins May Reap $300 Million From Facebook IPO,” NPR “Larry Summers Has Some Choice Words for Winklevoss Twins,” NPR “Judge Dismisses Winklevoss Case Against Facebook,” Los Angeles Times “Court Tells Winklevoss Twins to Quit Their Facebook Whining,” WIRED “Gemini IPO 2025...,” The OPC Ledger “Columbia Pictures Wins ‘Social Network’ Lawsuit...,” The Hollywood Reporter “Alleged Facebook Co-Creator Appeals...,” Deadline “Facebook ‘Co-Creator’ Continues Legal Action...,” The Guardian “Facebook Settles With Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard Classmate,” Business Insider “Who Founded Facebook? A New Claim Emerges,” The New York Times “’Social Network’ Lawsuit...,” Huffpost “Facebook Executive to Join Benchmark,” The New York Times “Matt Cohler Helped Build Facebook...,” Bryan County News “A Circle of Tech...,” The New York Times “The Ruthless Betrayal...,” Medium “Mark Zuckerberg On His Co-Founder...,” Litigationandtrial.com “Eduardo Saverin’s Net Worth Publicly Revealed...,” Forbes “Six College Students Create Job-Search Site,” Yale Daily News “Students Launch Job Search Site,” The Harvard Crimson “Facebook Founder Launches Job Networking Site ‘Joboozle,’” The Diamondback “Unfriend...,” CNET “When Facebook Was Young...,” VatorNews “The First 20 Facebook Employees...?” Business Insider “Report: Facebook to Launch Job Board,” PCMag “Stability AI Lands a Lifeline...,” TechCrunch “AI Image-Generator Startup Stability AI Looks for Reshoot...,” The Seattle Times “Sean Parker,” Forbes “Eduardo Saverin,” Forbes “Mark Zuckerberg,” Forbes “The Incredible Life and Career of Sean Parker,” Medium “Former Facebook President Sean Parker...,” CNBC
