Facebook employee writing memoir of company’s rise

Losse joined Facebook in 2005 as a customer service representative, eventually rising to become founder Mark Zuckerberg’s personal writer and an executive in charge of internationalization–helping translate the Facebook interface into languages other than English. She left the company in 2010 in what the Free Press describes as “friendly terms.” The publisher promises that The […]

Losse joined Facebook in 2005 as a customer service representative, eventually rising to become founder Mark Zuckerberg’s personal writer and an executive in charge of internationalization–helping translate the Facebook interface into languages other than English.

She left the company in 2010 in what the Free Press describes as “friendly terms.” The publisher promises that The Boy Kings will “reveal what’s really driving both the business and the culture of the social network.  She will answer the biggest question of all:

What kind of world is Facebook trying to build, and is it the world we want to live in?”

Despite the interest in the company, first-hand accounts of its origins are surprisingly sparse. The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich, is the book the Oscar-winning film The Social Network is based on.

Mezrich interviewed some of the people involved in the story but Zuckerberg would not speak with him and many at the company thought the book was inaccurate.