Facebook Effect Book Read.
I just read (eh-hum) listen to the book Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick which was published back in 2010, but never got around to reading…
What a fascinating and intriguing book. It really is an unprecedented behind the scenes look a Facebook’s journey from its college origins, to raising capital, to feature introduction, to Twitter compete, to growth pains… The author does a great job at telling the overall story (as well as individual stories). He had great access to the key players for a long time (over 8-10 years), and that makes a world of (good) difference.
As mentioned, I was listening to the Audible audiobook version of this book, which was narrated by the author, which was pretty cool. A very nice surprise, at the end was an hour-long very interview between David and Randi Zuckerberg. It was a very good and candid interview.
I plan to update this post with some tidbits from the book at some point…
Highly recommended!
The Facebook page (public) of The Facebook Effect book can be found here
