The Social Network
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Erica Albright
Erica Albright probably doesn't exist DOES exist, in a roundabout kind of way: those LiveJournal entries were actually (apparently) about someone called Jessica Alona. After all, it's not entirely unlikely that Mark Zuckerberg had a real live actual girlfriend before meeting his current ladyfriend (and probably future wife, if the recent New Yorker profile on him is to be believed) Priscilla Chan in college.
Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel is a venture capitalist (managing partner of the Founders Fund) who provided the initial investment for Facebook. He invented PayPal.
Chris Hughes
Facebook cofounder and Zuckerberg roomie Chris Hughes left Faceook to manage online organizing of Barack Obama's social networking efforts during the 2008 campaign. In hindsight, that actually went really well, so nice job, Chris Hughes. #
Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz is a cofounder of Facebook who served as Vice President in charge of the technical staff until 2008.
Sean Parker
Sean Parker got famous and made the RIAA really grumpy and litigious in the process by creating Napster back in the day. He also founded Plaxo, an online rolodex to help people keep track of changing contact info in their networks.
Divya Narenda
Divya Narenda a partner in ConnectU, which sued Mark Zuckerberg for stealing their idea, went on to cofound SumZero, a social network for investors working at hedge funds.
Eduardo Saverin
Eduardo Saverin was one of the co-founders of Facebook and currently owns a 5 percent share in the company.
Cameron And Tyler Winklevoss
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the identical twin Olympic rowers who founded ConnectU - Cameron later cofounded Guest Of A Guest - received a reported $65 million settlement from Facebook in a suit that alleged Zuckerberg had broken an oral contract with them and stolen their idea.
The Real People Behind The Social Network Movie
Sorry for the lame title of this post! Moving on: I just watched The Social Network. It's really good, and it made me want to know what all the people in the movie looked like IRL, and what they're up to nowadays. So I looked it up, and now you're reading about it! Here's some background on the relevant people from the story.
