Summary:
Facebook continued to make moves in the cooperate world. Thousands upon thousands of new members were joining each day, it was crazy! The Winklevoss twins (tyler and cameron) were still pretty upset about the way things worked out with Mark. They were all the way in a different country, England to be exact, competing in a rowing race. They lost by about 2 seconds, which was extremely devastating. Then, to add insult to injury, someone asked them if they had a facebook account. Someone in ENGLAND asked if they had a facebook account, which was only open to selected colleges in the US... unbelievable! This reaaaaaally made tyler and cameron mad. That was the last straw for them, they were going to file a lawsuit. Justice had to be served.
Meanwhile, Eduardo was in New York still, completing his internship and finding investors, looking at possible VC's who wanted to be involved with Facebook. While Eduardo was keeping busy in New York, Mark and his roommates, including Sean Parker were having the time of their lives in California. They also had many offers coming at them from big companies, who were offfering a lot of money. Also, Sean was taking Mark under his wing in a way, taking him to all the coolest parties, meeting important people, the works. Eduardo pretty much wasn't in the picture anymore because, well let's face it, he was all the way across the country and the was no way he could be involved in every little decision they made. Speaking of decisions, Mark and Dustin had decided they weren't going to go back to Harvard for the next semester, they were going to take a semester off and work on the facebook, staying in California. On the other hand, there was NO way Eduardo was going to take time off, school meant everything to him. He was a senior, going to graduate in 5 months, it would make no sense for him to take time off to work on the facebook when he had been doing that the whole summer!
When Mark and Eduardo did get the chance to speak through quick phone calls, every time Eduardo would try to inform Mark about the offers he had received and the investments he was looking into, Mark always jumped in to talk about the awesome party he went to with Sean the other night. Eduardo was SICK of Sean. To him, Sean had nothing to do with the Facebook, he was just a HOUSE GUEST, that's it. It was Eduardo's money going into the account for the facebook. It was HIS money that was housing them in California while they went to parties every night. All his money was being wasted and to make it worse, he wasn't even being included, even though he owned 30% of Facebook! Eduardo wrote Mark a very stern letter, talking about his problems with the way things were working out. Mark seemed to sort of brush the letter off, telling Eduardo that he would be more included if he wasn't all the way in New York, if he stayed out in California for a while. Obviously, Mark didn't get the picture, so Eduardo had to take drastic measures. He went straight to the bank and froze the account for the facebook, he had to show them he meant business.
Because Eduardo had financially cut them off, Mark was able to save up his own money to put into the account, which would hold them over only for a short amount of time, because as you know facebook was expanding rapidly. Eventually, Mark had cut Eduardo out of the company completely. Eduardo was so devastated, felt so betrayed that he decided he was going to file a law suit against Mark, because he took away his ownership. Facebook got up to 1,000,000 members within 10 months, which called for a celebration. They had a little party, hosted by Sean of course and there was lots of drinking, smoking and other bad things. Unexpectedly, the cops showed up and Sean was arrested, for reasons unaccounted for. After that, Sean was also cut from the facebook entirely, because frankly his reputation and unpredictable behavior wasn't a good look for making business deals. In the end, to mark, facebook wasn't about friendship, it was never about friends, it was all about business. who knows if he was really friends with Eduardo, maybe he just used him as a sort of financial supplier. It was all about business and at the end of the day, Mark was CEO, he could do whatever he wanted.
Quote: "whatever the reason, he'd walked right up to the Winklevoss twin, and had held out his hand. As the stunned kid had stared at him, Eduardo had let the words come spilling out: 'I'm sorry. He screwed me like he screwed you guys'. And without another word, he had turned-and disappeared back onto the dance floor" (Mezrich 252).
Reaction: When i read this quote, and even before i read it, i felt really bad for Eduardo. I could tell in a way he was jealous of Mark and Sean's sudden friendship and felt like Sean was taking his place. So when he tried to be assertive and make Mark understand what he's trying to say, he ends up getting cut out of Facebook entirely. Even though, he was the one who invested all the money into it, and he was with Mark back when he was in his dorm room, spending hours typing up codes. He and Mark started it together, although it was Mark's idea and work. I could understand how betrayed he must of felt, realizing that theres a chance Mark was never really his friend at all. And when he walks up the his "enemies" and apologizing, It then seems as though Mark was the bad guy all along, not Sean nor Tyler, Cameron, and Divya. They all felt "screwed over" by Mark, but there was nothing they could do about it because Facebook was Mark's creation, he owned it and he was going to do whatever it takes to make it successful.
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