Friendster: The Untold Story
Gary Rivlin at the New York Times finally wrote the untold story, here you have an extract:
Jonathan Abrams was in a spot. He could take the safe bet and accept the $30 million that Google was offering him for Friendster, the social networking Web start-up he began only a year earlier, in 2002. Saying yes to Google would provide a quick and stunning payout for relatively little work and instantly place the Friendster Web site in front of hundreds of millions of users across the globe.
But at the same time, some of the biggest names in...
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