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More awesome than money : four boys and their quest to save the world from Facebook
- Title
- More awesome than money : four boys and their quest to save the world from Facebook / Jim Dwyer.
- Author
- Dwyer, Jim, 1957-2020.
- Publication
- New York, New York : Viking, 2014.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JBE 15-23 | Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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- Description
- 374 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The true story of a revolutionary-but-doomed Silicon Valley start-up, by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter. Their idea was simple. Four NYU undergrads wanted to build a social network that would allow users to control their personal data, instead of surrendering it to big businesses like Facebook. They called it "Diaspora." In days, they raised $200,000, and reporters, venture capitalists, and the digital community's most legendary figures were soon monitoring their progress. Max dreamed of being a CEO. Ilya was the idealist. Dan coded like a pro, and Rafi tried to keep them all on track. But as the months passed and the money ran out, the Diaspora Four fell victim to errors, bad decisions, and their own hubris. In November of 2011, Ilya committed suicide. Diaspora has been tech news since day one, but the story reaches far beyond Silicon Valley to the now urgent issues about the future of the Internet. With the cooperation of the surviving partners, New York Times bestselling author Jim Dwyer tells a riveting story of four ambitious and naive young men who tried to re-bottle the genie of personal privacy-and paid the ultimate price"--
- "Four NYU undergrads wanted to build a social network that would allow users to control what they shared about themselves. They were hoping to raised 10k in 30 days and their project was called Diaspora. Their 2010 Kickstarter campaign ended the first day with three backers. They raised 20 times their goal and had support from around the world. But as the months wore on and the money wore out, they couldn't get there--coding failures, bad business decisions, over-reach and under-organization, and the inevitable conflicts of personality and goals. And when one of the four committed suicide in the fall of 2011, they found out how much they had all been on their own all along"--
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Call Number
- JBE 15-23
- ISBN
- 9780670025602
- 0670025607
- LCCN
- 2014004511
- OCLC
- 2014004511
- Author
- Dwyer, Jim, 1957-2020.
- Title
- More awesome than money : four boys and their quest to save the world from Facebook / Jim Dwyer.
- Publisher
- New York, New York : Viking, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JBE 15-23