Fortune just published a must-read excerpt from David Kirkpatrick’s forthcoming book,
“The Facebook Effect: the Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World.� In one unbelievable anecdote, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his
cohorts saw fit to “punk� Sequoia Capital -- despite the fact that the veneral VC firm was prepared to invest perhaps millions in the startup.
“Zuckerberg and another partner showed up deliberately late for an 8 a.m. meeting, in their pajamas … Zuckerberg showed a PowerPoint presentation David
Letterman-style,� Kirkpatrick writes. Who does that?! In those early days, Zuckerberg also had a business card that read: “I’m
CEO...bitch!� Hardly pathological, however, Kirkpatrick paints a portrait of Zuckerberg as an average -- if intensely driven -- American Ivy Leaguer who was equally concerned with
girls -- some of whom he referred to as “bitches� -- and Beck’s beer, as we was with seeing his fledgling social network success.