Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven LevyMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Extremely interesting and well-researched book going through the history of Facebook (yes, including points from the Social Network movie). Much of it was a throwback to things I'd forgotten, like Causes, Animal Farm, Throwing Sheep, etc.
Also interesting how you realize Eduardo Saverin was actually a very smart guy. For very little of the work he still ended up with a sizeable chunk, and was never bothered with any of Facebook's subsequent woes.
All in all it was definitely worth the read. Also, you see the progression of Facebook and Zuckerberg and get a good sense of how Facebook has (or hasn't) kept up with everything going on.
In essence, scandals aside (and there are scandals aplenty), Facebook hasn't really had any hits since the Like button and newsfeed. Everything since then has been a dud, from the Facebook phone (I had completely forgotten about that) to stories (taken from Instagram) to Libra. In fact, the main wins have been purchases, from Instagram to Whatsapp to Beluga (which it purchased, shut down, and turned into Messenger), to (possibly) Oculus.
All of this is to say, now that Facebook has rebranded as Meta, it seems like Mark is staking everything on this, but we'll see how it goes.
Seriously though. Every time I load up Instagram or Whatsapp and see that "Meta" logo at the bottom, I'm reminded of the Social Network movie, where they comment on the "A Mark Zuckerberg Production" at the bottom of each page.
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