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Sarah Lacy is Editor In Chief of PandoDaily and former senior editor of TechCrunch and writer for Business Week. Sarah has been covering Facebook since its inception and wrote the first business book on the company: "Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good — The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0" (Gotham, 2008). In "Buy This Book..." Sarah examines the people behind Facebook and also digs deep into the financing that turned a dorm-room project into a $100 billion-dollar company.
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If you want to understand how a 19-year-old kid created one of the most respected companies on the planet: Buy this book.
If you want to truly comprehend how yet ...