(p. 15) In 2011, Levy, now the editor at large at Wired, wrote an extensive history of Google. To report the book, he secured liberal access to executives at Google and was allowed to soak up company culture by wandering around its corporate campus. He employed much the same strategy for “Facebook.” Zuckerberg granted Levy numerous interviews over a three-year period, and gave him “unprecedented access” to company executives.
The result is a work that recounts the company’s narrative mainly through the lens of its central figures.
. . .
Not for nothing is the book subtitled “The Inside Story.” Levy, who first met Zuckerberg in 2006, takes readers inside his college dorm suite; inside the late-night coding and cavorting at the company’s first home base in Palo Alto; inside meetings with the tech moguls who were the start-up’s first major investors; inside design choices that fueled the social network’s popularity; and inside Zuckerberg’s head.
For the full review, see:
Natasha Singer. “Power Trip.” The New York Times Book Review (Sunday, March 15, 2020): 15.
(Note: ellipsis added.)
(Note: the online version of the review has the date Feb. 25 [sic], 2020, and has the title “‘Facebook: The Inside Story’ Offers a Front-Row Seat on Voracious Ambition.”)
The book discussed in the passages quoted above, is:
Levy, Steven. Facebook: The Inside Story. New York: Blue Rider Press, 2020.