In a nutshell: when Zuck & friends moved to Palo Alto for the summer to work on Facebook, Saverin decided to take an internship at Lehman Brothers in NYC instead. It became increasingly hard to get his attention, even as his approval was required for a crucial funding step.
Worse still, Saverin then ran unauthorized ads on the platform for a side project of his. He kept asking about parties in Palo Alto.
That's when Zuck decided that enough was enough and started to cut him off.
So it's fair to say, at the very least, that the culture fit wasn't there and that the Social Network movie didn't paint the whole picture.
I think it's also fair to say that Saverin brought all this upon himself by repeatedly failing to show commitment in the company, and that he still got a sweet deal in the end because Facebook wouldn't have been anywhere near as valuable had he remained involved.
In a nutshell: when Zuck & friends moved to Palo Alto for the summer to work on Facebook, Saverin decided to take an internship at Lehman Brothers in NYC instead. It became increasingly hard to get his attention, even as his approval was required for a crucial funding step. Worse still, Saverin then ran unauthorized ads on the platform for a side project of his. He kept asking about parties in Palo Alto. That's when Zuck decided that enough was enough and started to cut him off.
So it's fair to say, at the very least, that the culture fit wasn't there and that the Social Network movie didn't paint the whole picture.
I think it's also fair to say that Saverin brought all this upon himself by repeatedly failing to show commitment in the company, and that he still got a sweet deal in the end because Facebook wouldn't have been anywhere near as valuable had he remained involved.