Texas Startup Blog written by Alexander Muse

Facebook movie and book coming!

August 29, 2008

Earlier this week I mentioned anything that Ben Mezrich writes is ‘made for Hollywood‘ and it would seem that I was right.  According to Caroline McCarthy, Ben Mezrich is writing a book about the origins of Facebook.  I suspect it will be juicy as Ben has been getting the inside scoop from early and disgruntled co-founder Eduardo Saverin.  Mark and Eduardo were undergraduates at Harvard and as the book proposal described, “Zuckerberg and Saverin getting caught up in Silicon Valley excess, partying like celebrities all over the world, until a showdown between them turned ugly.”