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The Social Network Movie Analysis

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1.The social network summary
The social network directed by David Fincher is a film which details the founding and creation of Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg and the other founders. The story is told through flashbacks or explanations of the characters involved in two court cases. Mark Zuckerberg vs. the Winklevoss twins’ about how Zuckerberg supposedly committed intellectual property fraud the idea from them to create the Facebook and how he didn’t help them make there Harvard connection. Zuckerberg vs. his best friend Eduardo Saverin who is suing Zuckerberg for dilution of his shares of Facebook from 34% to 0.03% and his removal from the Facebook master head. The movie claims the some of the reasons for Zuckerberg creating Facebook and his …show more content…

Mark Zuckerberg Would never have been able to work under someone and be successful as the film shows when he gets the business cards that’s says some quite rude things showing he didn’t take orders from anyone he wanted to be his own boss. The carrier choice seems to have been a good one with him being one of the youngest billionaires of all time but this was not without personal sacrifice and loss of friends namely when he diluted Eduardo Saverin's shares to allow for more investment options he also refused a deal from Yahoo! (from bio) as he felt his company was worth more then what they were offering this shows the amount of big risks Mark Zuckerberg was willing to take to achieve his goals. Mark chose right about his carrier as he does what he loves programming every day and I believe this is the main reason he is such a success because he has learnt how to do what he loves.
2.2 The critical success factors of Facebook
Micro environment of the business: the goals and objectives of Facebook are to maintain its lead with over 1 billion members according to Forbes that means Facebook is one of the biggest tech companies in the world with shares at US$97,54
16 Oct, 4:00 PM GMT-4 -showing they are a public company . Even in the Film we see that Facebook was a success as we see its 1 million member party but also we hear Eduardo say he is suing Mark for 600 million dollars which shows that at the time of the court cases that Facebook was still

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