• CNN Money, Thursday, May 6, 2010 1:56 PM

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 (before even Britney did it), 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.

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