After the bad incident that happened to Zuckerberg, it didn't stop there. In that year itself, Zuckerberg faced another hurdle when Ben Mezrich, an American author released book called, "The Accidental Billionaires". The story of this book by Ben is basically re-telling the fame of Mark Zuckerberg from a Harvard student to a billionaire.
The Social Network
Zuckerberg has been facing all kind of obstacles within the year. But before Zuckerberg could even relax his mind about all of the controversy, another personal challenge appeared. A year after the controversy of the book that claimed to be adapted from the genius - Mark Zuckerberg life, a blockbuster movie by the famous director David Fincher called "The Social Network" hit markets.
"The Social Network" is the adapted from the book by Ben Mezrich which is telling about the life of Mark Zuckerberg from a ordinary student to a youngest billionaire. In this movie, it shows how Mark Zuckerberg started involving in the programming world while he is in the ivy league institution where he first created a program for Harvard called "CourseMatch" which helped the students to choose their classes based on the course selections of other students in Harvard. Basically most of Zuckerberg's life in Harvard is in this movie, from how he invented "CourseMatch" to the most well known by everyone nowadays which is "Facebook.com". During an interview with Zuckerberg regarding this movie, Zuckerberg strongly oppose the narrative for it and claimed that the story in the movie isn't accurate. He also said, "It's interesting what stuff they focused on getting right; like, every single shirt and fleece that I had in that movie is actually a shirt or fleece that I own," Zuckerberg told a reporter during his interview in 2010. "So there's all this stuff that they got wrong and a bunch of random details that they got right."
The interview regarding the movie "The Social Network"
Yet after all the things happened to him past year, Zuckerberg and Facebook are still going forward and make a fortune. In the year 2010, Time magazine has listed Mark Zuckerberg as Person Of The Year 2010. Other than that, Forbes also ranked Zuckerberg at No. 35—beating out Apple CEO Steve Jobs—on its "400" list, estimating his net worth to be $6.9 billion.
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