I watched The Social Network last night and I thought it was a brilliant movie.  It did a great job of telling the Facebook story and seemed to capture the underlying characteristics and motivations of all players involved.  Yes, I am sure many of the situations were dramatized and made for Hollywood, but given all of the actual true-to-life accusations and settlements, I believe that many of the high level themes and points made in the movie were based on the actual truth. Anyways, below is my opinion: 

• Mark Zuckerberg is a genius and he deserves every bit of the billions of dollars he is worth for creating Facebook.  Hands down, no arguments.
  
  
• Mark probably did steal the idea, but so what, ideas are a dime a dozen and when it was all said and done, he paid over 65M as a settlement.  That seems like a fair trade to me.  Plus the Winklevoss twins would in my opinion likely done jack shit with the idea as did the thousands of other entrepreneurs who all tried creating Facebook clones, so as fucked up as it was that Mark stole it, the world is actually better off for him doing so.
  
  
• Mark did screw his best friend Eduardo Saverin out of a 30% share of the company, which Mark did seem to actually regret for doing so.  I think all being equal, Mark would have preferred to keep his friend Eduardo onboard, but for a 30% partner, the guy seemed completely unaligned with Mark’s vision for the company and was in fact holding him back from the success he is realizing today.  This seemed like a complex situation and all being equal, I don’t think Mark intended to screw his friend but what should Mark have done, sacrificed his vision for Facebook?  I don’t know the answer to this and I am curious for some perspective here.
  
  
• I think Justin Timberlake did a horrible job portraying Shawn Parker, original founder of Napster and current board member of Facebook.  According to what I have read, Sean is absolutely brilliant and one of the true visionaries of our generation having been a key contributor is the development of napster, plaxo and facebook - all disruptive in their own regards.  This movie however portrayed Sean as being much more of a poser and big-talker vs a vision setter and an industry disrupter.  Poor casting on this one!!