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The story begins in the weeks that precede the launch of "thefacebook.com" at Harvard. Eduardo Saverin, cast as the protagonist, has befriended Mark Zuckerberg, and both struggle for social acceptance—Saverin by joining a final club, Zuckerberg by creating a website where girls can be ranked according to their looks. Zuckerberg's stunt ...
Eduardo Luiz Saverin was born in São Paulo to a wealthy Jewish-Brazilian family, [5] [14] [15] which later moved to Rio de Janeiro. Saverin's father, Roberto Saverin, [16] was a businessman working in clothing, shipping, energy, and real estate. [17] His mother, Sandra, was a psychologist. He has two siblings. [18]
After traveling to the company's new headquarters on the pretense of attending a business meeting and "millionth user party," Saverin becomes enraged when he discovers that the new investment deal allows his share of Facebook to be diluted from 34% to 0.03%, without diluting the ownership percentage of any other owner, and has already been ...
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York, to psychiatrist Karen (née Kempner) and dentist Edward Zuckerberg. [3] [4] He and his three sisters (Arielle, Randi, and Donna) were raised in a Reform Jewish household [5] in Dobbs Ferry, New York. [6]
In American usage, a publication's masthead is a printed list, published in a fixed position in each edition, of its owners, departments, officers, contributors and address details, [1] [2] which in British English usage is known as imprint. [3] Flannel panel is a humorous term for a magazine masthead panel.
At Harvard, he was a member of the men's varsity crew, the Porcellian Club [11] and the Hasty Pudding Club. In 2009, Winklevoss entered the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford where he obtained an MBA in 2010. [4] While at Oxford he was an Oxford Blue, and rowed, in a losing effort, in the Blue Boat in the 156th Oxford-Cambridge ...
Bookclub is a monthly programme, devised by Olivia Seligman and hosted by Jim Naughtie and broadcast on BBC Radio 4.Each month a novel is selected, and its author invited to discuss it.
The Millions is an online literary magazine created by C. Max Magee in 2003. [1] [2] It contains articles about literary topics and book reviews.The Millions has several regular contributors as well as frequent guest appearances by literary notables, including Margaret Atwood, John Banville, Elif Batuman, Aimee Bender, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Michael Cunningham, Charles D'Ambrosio, Helen DeWitt ...