4.0

Memoir of a woman working at Facebook 2005-2010. An inside look at how Facebook became the social media platform we know, love, & hate today. Includes much discussion of workplace culture at Facebook & in Silicon Valley in general. Losse speculates on Zuckerberg's motivations and worldview, but her account solidifies my image of him as a profit-robot. Losse's account also solidifies the view that the dissemination of spam and disinformation is a feature not a bug of facebook. The part towards the end where a parade of Russian investors (with possible mob connections) now feels very topical, introducing the possibility that the largest social media site in America was cultivated early on by Russian oligarchs and mobsters.
A good read. Now I'm just waiting for a MySpace tell-all to come out.