Becoming Facebook

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Finding Your Inner Zuck

Everything at Facebook starts with MarkZuckerberg, but it doesn’t end there

To tell any Facebook story, you have to first put its lead—Mark Zuckerberg—on stage and give him some context. A path to walk, and a reason to walk it. A tribe to belong to. An origin story from a time before the movie, the hacker’s den in Palo Alto and the Harvard dorm room that hints at how this kid from the comfortable embrace of a close, upper-middle-class American family in the leafy Hudson Valley suburb of Dobbs Ferry 20 miles north of New York City would possibly become a global connector whose work may mean more to people in places like Africa, Southeast Asia, Columbia, Egypt and India than it does even to those in the United States. ...