It may have been the last thing he planned in his Harvard dorm room, and Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook played a role in the recent Egyptian revolution.
A New York Times article detailed the use of social media by Yemeni and Egyptian youth leaders over the course of the past two years before activating their successful campaigns.
Ben Mezrich’s The Accidental Billionaires tells the story of how Facebook got started, ending with the company about to be fully launched through the support of venture capital firm Accel.