is this some kind of interactive theater art piece?

Monday, January 31, 2011

Pages 173-209


In chapter 22 Eduardo visits Mark in California. After attending a party together Eduardo starts to see how much of an impact facebook is making. Victoria Secret models were attracted to him and people were offering to buy him cars. People were attracted to Mark. On the way home Eduardo gets a call from Kelly. She is sobbing and informs him that she just set his apartment on fire, on purpose. Eduardo and Kelly soon break up.

Next the Winklevoss twins are at a rowing championship in England. It is a very big deal to them and they are honored to be there. However, a Dutch team beats them by 2 seconds. After he race they are congratulated by the host. They start talking and he brings up thefacebook. He says his daughter has one and uses it all of the time. This infuriates the twins. Thefacebook is not only popular in the United States, but it has traveled across seas also.

Now Eduardo is furious with Mark and Sean. After working hard in New York, setting up meeting with advisers he felt really good about himself. Until he called Mark to tell him the great news only to be shot down. Mark did not care and Sean had set up meetings with other advisers. Mark continued to stress how Eduardo should move to California. After sending Mark a letter of complaint and getting no results, Eduardo decides to freeze the shared account. Mark wuld not be able to cash an checks or take anymore money out of the account.

Next Sean and Mark are on their way to a meeting with a huge investor. Peter Thiel was the name of the man that gave them five hundred thousand dollars for facebook. That would cover the previous debt, and the lawsuit the Winklevoss twins were filing on Mark. Which Sean just saw as a minor inconvenience. Sean had came to the conclusion that Eduardo freezing the account and living in New York meant that he did not care enough. He saw Eduardo’s actions as childish and they did not need that when they are about to start a business. 'Thefacebook' was changed to 'Facebook' and it now had 3 million members.

It is sad to see that Eduardo is getting pushed out of the business. He has worked really hard but no one seemed to notice. But i guess that is how things work in the real world. Sean is slowly taking his place and he does not realize it. Instead of getting mad and freezing the accounts he should have thought about moving to California for the summer. He had already quit his internship so why would he choose to stay there?

1 comment:

  1. Nice blog. Your reactions to Accidental Billionaires are interesting, as are your thoughts about the relationship of the book to the movie. It's the next movie on my Netflix queue, so I'm looking forward to getting that one in the mail now.

    I'd love to see you make this blog a little more personal or varied, just to see what you think about other things in the world or on the net.

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