Billionaires The Founding of Facebook

Parties at Stanford and down in L.A. Friends who had become billionaires, and 
others who were still searching for that big hit. He painted a really exciting 
picture of his world—and, Eduardo could see, Mark was eating it all up. He 

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looked like he was about to run out of the restaurant and book a plane ticket 
straight to California. 
When Sean finally reached the last of his stories—for the moment, Eduardo 
assumed—he turned it around, asking them about their most recent progress 
with thefacebook. 
Eduardo started to explain that they were now in twenty-nine schools—but Sean 
turned right back to Mark, asking him about the strategies they were applying to 
get the different schools to join up. 
Eduardo sat there, a little miffed, as Mark stiltedly explained their strategy by 
way of an example. He told the Baylor story—how the little Texan University had 
at first refused to adopt thefacebook, because the school had a social network 
of its own. So instead of attacking Baylor head-on, they’d made a list of all the 
schools within a hundred-mile radius of it, and had dropped thefacebook into 
those schools first. Pretty soon all the kids at Baylor were seeing all their friends 
on the Web site—and they practically begged for thefacebook on their campus. 
Within days, the Baylor social Web site was history. 
Sean seemed really excited by the story. He then added to it, by quoting 
something he’d read in the Stanford newspaper—the Stanford Daily—on March 
5: “Classes are being skipped. Work is being ignored. Students are spending 
hours in front of the computer in utter fascination. The facebook.com craze has 
swept through campus.” After that article had come out, 85 percent of Stanford 
had joined thefacebook within twenty-four hours. 
Mark seemed thrilled that Sean had been reading up on him. And Sean, for his