Authoritas
Subtitle: One Student's Harvard Admissions and the Founding of the Facebook Era
Edition: First
Publisher: Think Press
Published: June, 2008
Place of publication: Palo Alto, CA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9781606690000
Subjects: Technology; Education; Business; Entrepreneurship; Facebook
Genres: Memoir
First sentence: "What can I do for you?" he said.
Description: Aaron Greenspan was just like any other recent Harvard graduate until the day he read that his invention, a web site called The Facebook, was worth billions of dollars—and someone else was taking the credit. Trying to find the rationale behind an unbelievable tale of ingenuity, triumph and betrayal, Greenspan sat down to write his story, and emerged with a book that follows a boy and his autistic brother from public school to the hyper-competitive college admissions process to the gates of Harvard Yard and beyond. A true story that sheds light on the American educational system, the immense challenges of coping with autism, and of course, the astronomical growth of The Facebook, Authoritas is an engrossing account of life that any student, parent, teacher or entrepreneur will relate to.
Table of contents: title: Author's Note xii; title: Chapter 1 The Robot Problem 7; title: Chapter 2 Tales of Woodbury Elementary 21; title: Chapter 3 A Hard Lesson 30; title: Chapter 4 Freedom to Conform 43; title: Chapter 5 The Technology Committee 50; title: Chapter 6 The Treadmill in Motion 66; title: Chapter 7 Sudden Collapse 83; title: Chapter 8 A New Economy 89; title: Chapter 9 The Envelope 107; title: Chapter 10 The Carrot 113; title: Chapter 11 The Cars of Harvard Yard 123; title: Chapter 12 The Stick 139; title: Chapter 13 The Power of Thought 146; title: Chapter 14 The Added Insult 156; title: Chapter 15 Signs of Impending Entrepreneurship 168; title: Chapter 16 The Comic Tragedy of Robert Neugeboren 181; title: Chapter 17 The Substitute 192; title: Chapter 18 Round Pegs and Square Holes 197; title: Chapter 19 Finding Critical Mass 203; title: Chapter 20 The Birth of houseSYSTEM 214; title: Chapter 21 The Battle of Lowell House 223; title: Chapter 22 Securitas 234; title: Chapter 23 Authoritas 249; title: Chapter 24 Veritas 270; title: Chapter 25 The Decision 278; title: Chapter 26 The Dawn of the Facebook Era 286; title: Chapter 27 Denial 297; title: Chapter 28 “Five Years” to the Offer of a Life 312; title: Chapter 29 Lessons for Tomorrow 321; title: Epilogue 328; title: Acknowledgments 334