20%OFF
The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World. David Kirkpatrick
Kirkpatrick
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World. David Kirkpatrick
Paperback. Today - six years after it was created in a Harvard dorm room - over 500 million people use Facebook regularly, in just about every country on earth. That a company this powerful and influential was started as a lark by a couple of 19-year-olds makes it a fascinating and surprising tale. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: JFCA; UDBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 25. Weight in Grams: 262.
Today - six years after it was created in a Harvard dorm room - over 500 million people use Facebook regularly, in just about every country on earth. That a company this powerful and influential was started as a lark by a couple of 19-year-olds makes it a fascinating and surprising tale. That one of them, the visionary Mark Zuckerberg, had the maturity, strategic smarts and luck to keep his company ahead of its rivals anchors the tale.
With exclusive inside access to all the company's leaders David Kirkpatrick tells of the vision, the tenacity, the refusal to compromise, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Virgin Publishing
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780753522752
SKU
V9780753522752
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-23
About Kirkpatrick
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. 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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World. David Kirkpatrick
David Kirkpatrick was handed the keys to the Facebook kingdom - the result is the definitive account of its phenomenal rise
Observer
Leaves you with a deep understanding of Facebook, its philosophies and, most startlingly, its power. You come away with a creepy new awareness of how a directory of college students is fast becoming a directory of ... Read more
Observer
Leaves you with a deep understanding of Facebook, its philosophies and, most startlingly, its power. You come away with a creepy new awareness of how a directory of college students is fast becoming a directory of ... Read more