标题：意外的亿万富翁
概况
“Facebook的创立，一个关于性，金钱，天才和背叛的故事”，《意外的亿万富翁》的封面上这样显目的写着。本·麦兹里奇的小说《意外的亿万富翁》被改编成电影《社交网络》，故事源于网站facebook的创始人马克·扎克伯格和埃德华多·萨瓦林Facebook的创立。
该书在台湾已出中文繁体版，叫做《偶然的亿万富翁：Facebook创办中的性爱、金钱、天才与背叛》。
该书的英文版信息：
DOUBLEDAY 
Copyright © 2009 by Ben Mezrich 
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a 
division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random 
House of Canada Limited, Toronto. 
www doubleday&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; com 
DOUBLEDAY and the DD colophon are registered trademarks 
of Random House, Inc. 
Cataloging - in - Publication Data is on file with the Library of Congress. 
eISBN: 978- 0 -385 -53219 - 8
该书的英文版目录：
CONTENTS 
AUTHOR’S NOTE 1 
CHAPTER 1 | OCTOBER 2003 2 
CHAPTER 2 | HARVARD YARD 8 
CHAPTER 3 | ON THE CHARLES 17 
CHAPTER 4 | CANNIBALISTIC CHICKENS 25 
CHAPTER 5 | THE LAST WEEK OF OCTOBER 2003 31 
CHAPTER 6 | LATER THAT EVENING 38 
CHAPTER 7 | WHAT HAP PEN S NEXT 41 
CHAPTER 8 | THE QUAD 43 
CHAPTER 9 | THE CONN ECTION 48 
CHAPTER 10 | NOVEMBER 25, 2003 53 
CHAPTER 11 | CAMBRIDGE, 1. 58 
CHAPTER 12 | JANUARY 14, 2004 65 
CHAPTER 13 | FEBRUARY 4, 2004 70 
CHAPTER 14 | FEBRUARY 9, 2004 77 
CHAPTER 15 | AMERICAN IDOL 83 
CHAPTER 16 | VERITAS 95 
CHAPTER 17 | MARCH 2004 103 
CHAPTER 19 | SPRING SEMESTER 118 
CHAPTER 20 | MAY 2004 125 
CHAPTER 21 | SERENDIPITY 129 
CHAPTER 22 | CALIFORNIA DREAMING 135 
CHAPTER 23 | HENLEY ON THE THAMES 145 
CHAPTER 24 | JULY 28 , 2004 150 
CHAPTER 25 | SAN FRANCISCO 155 
CHAPTER 26 | OCTOBER 2004 166 
CHAPTER 27 | DECEMBE R 3, 2004 172 
CHAPTER 28 | APRIL 3, 2005 176 
CHAPTER 29 | APRIL 4, 2005 180 
CHAPTER 30 | WHAT GO ES AROUND … 183 
CHAPTER 31 | JUNE 2005 186 
CHAPTER 32 | THREE MONTHS LATER 192 
CHAPTER 33 | CEO 196 
CHAPTER 34 | MAY 2008 198 
EPILOGUE | WHERE ARE THEY NOW …? 200 
SECONDARY SOURCES 203
英文版第一章
AUTHOR’S NOTE 
The Accidental Billionaires is a dramatic, narrative account based on 
dozens of interviews, hundreds of sources, and thousands of pages of 
documents, including re cords from several court proceedings. 
There are a number of different—and often contentious —opinions about 
some of the events that took place. Trying to paint a scene from the 
memories of dozens of sources—some direct witnesses, some indirect —
can often lead to discrepancies. I re - created the scenes in the book based 
on the information I uncovered from documents and interviews, and my 
best judgment as to what version most closely fits the documentary 
record. Other scenes are written in a way that describes individual 
perceptions without endorsing them. 
I have tried to keep the chronology as close to exact as possible. In some 
instances, details of settings and descriptions have been changed or 
imagined, and identifying details of certain people altered to protect their 
privacy. Other than the handful of public figures who populate this story, 
names and personal descriptions have been altered. 
I do employ the technique of re - created dialogue. I have based this 
dialogue on the recollections of participants of the substance of 
conversations. Some of the conversations recounted in this book took 
place over long periods of time, in multiple locations, and thus some 
conversations and scenes were re- created and compressed. Rather than 
spread these conversations out , I sometimes set these scenes in likely 
settings. 
I address sources more fully in the acknowledgments, but it is appropriate 
here to thank in particular Will McMullen for introducing me to Eduardo 
Saverin, without whom this story could not have been written. Mark 
Zuckerberg, as is his perfect right, declined to speak with me for this 
book despite numerous requests. [1]