Vorwort
'David Kirkpatrick was handed the keys to the Facebook kingdom - the result is the definitive account of its phenomenal rise' Observer
Autorentext
David Kirkpatrick
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Shortlisted for the FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award
With over 500 million users and available in 70 languages Facebook is one of the fastest growing companies in history.
But how did a nineteen-year-old Harvard student develop a company that has not only transformed the internet but changed the nature of how we communicate? David Kirkpatrick tells us how Facebook was created, why it has flourished and where it is going next. He chronicles its successes and missteps and gives readers the most complete assessment so far of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the central figure in the company's remarkable ascent.
'A well-reported account of the first six years of one of the most important companies on earth' -Financial Times
'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 all humanity' - Scotsman
Zusammenfassung
In September 2003, James 'Ash' Ashcroft, a former British Infantry Captain, arrived in Iraq as a 'gun for hire'. It was the beginning of an 18-month journey into blood and chaos.In this action-packed page-turner, Ashcroft reveals the dangers of his adrenalin-fuelled life as a security contractor in Baghdad, where private soldiers outnumber non-US Coalition forces in a war that is slowly being privatised. From blow-by-blow accounts of days under mortar bombardment to revelations about life operating deep within the Iraqi community, Ashcroft shares the real, unsanitised story of the war in Iraq - and its aftermath - direct from the front line.