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Divya Narendra Moves Past Facebook

Posted on September 7th, 2011 by Matthew Wong

There is a scene in David Fincher’s popular film “The Social Network” in which then-Harvard undergrad Divya Narendra (played by Max Minghella) stands tall over Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and announces that he cannot wait until the day Zuckerberg writes a check in his name. “The portrayal of me in the movie is that I’m [...]

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