To build a social kingdom for 500 million people, one must first betray a few friends. This was the famous tagline of a previous life's David Fincher film, a great piece that almost won him an Oscar for Best Director. Unfortunately, in this lifetime, that film and the biography it was based on are destined to never exist, for with Adrian's emphasis on the word "facebook," Mark Zuckerberg was bound to just graduate from Harvard and then likely lead an insignificant life.
As the largest and most well-known social media site of the past life, as well as the most important part of the online media, how could Adrian possibly resist taking action? He had stressed to Claude more than once the importance of the internet for the media, so these plans had been in the works for a while, much like the acquisition of Macromedia and the controlling stake in Adobe. If not for various restrictions, facebook would have been created long ago.
