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More awesome than money : four boys and their heroic quest to save your privacy from Facebook / Jim Dwyer.

by Dwyer, Jim, 1957-

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New York : Viking, 2014.

Diaspora (Project)

Internet industry -- United States.

Online social networks -- United States.

Privacy, Right of -- United States.

New business enterprises -- United States.

Business failures -- United States.

9780670025602 (hardback) :

0670025607 (hardback)

374 pages ; 24 cm

"The true story of a revolutionary-but-doomed Silicon Valley start-up, by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter. Their idea was simple. Four NYU undergrads wanted to build a social network that would allow users to control their personal data, instead of surrendering it to big businesses like Facebook. They called it "Diaspora." In days, they raised $200,000, and reporters, venture capitalists, and the digital community's most legendary figures were soon monitoring their progress. Max dreamed of being a CEO. Ilya was the idealist. Dan coded like a pro, and Rafi tried to keep them all on track. But as the months passed and the money ran out, the Diaspora Four fell victim to errors, bad decisions, and their own hubris. In November of 2011, Ilya committed suicide. Diaspora has been tech news since day one, but the story reaches far beyond Silicon Valley to the now urgent issues about the future of the Internet. With the cooperation of the surviving partners, New York Times bestselling author Jim Dwyer tells a riveting story of four ambitious and naive young men who tried to re-bottle the genie of personal privacy-and paid the ultimate price"--

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