# The Accidental Billionaires

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I’ve been listening to [The Accidental Billionaires](http://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Billionaires-Founding-Facebook-Betrayal/dp/0385529376/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252366883&sr=8-1) by Ben Mezrich, who wrote _Bringing Down the House._

_Accidental Billionaires_ is about the founding of Facebook. It starts out with Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard and traces their actions that led to the starting of Facebook. When Mark Zuckerberg moved to Palo Alto to work on Facebook, Eduardo Saverin stayed back at Harvard to graduate. Supposedly, Saverin was working the business long distance but didn’t get any credit for founding the company when it was finally launched.

In many ways, it seems to be a larger than life fictional account of the facts, very much like _Bringing Down the House_, I suspect. But I haven’t read much more about the real life details of the founding of Facebook.

Did you like the book or not and why?

Did you feel that Eduardo Saverin got a bad deal or not and why?