Why Mark Zuckerberg rejected a $1 Billion offer for Facebook

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The video discusses Mark Zuckerberg's rejection of a $1 billion offer from Yahoo for Facebook in 2006. Despite the large sum, Zuckerberg believed in Facebook's future potential and its planned product developments, which he felt Yahoo was not properly valuing.

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1Yahoo's $1 billion offer for Facebook
2Zuckerberg's age and ownership stake
3Facebook's early stage: college site, no profits
4Board meeting discussion and Zuckerberg's stance
5Zuckerberg's reasoning: future potential and planned products

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In 2006, Yahoo offered to acquire Facebook for $1 billion, a massive sum for the young startup. While some board members, including early investor Peter Thiel, were open to the deal, CEO Mark Zuckerberg firmly rejected it, believing in Facebook’s long-term potential. @techfoundersclub - Source: Forbes #markzuckerberg #peterthiel #techstartup #entrepreneur

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Why Mark Zuckerberg rejected a $1 Billion offer for Facebook When Yahoo offered us $1 billion dollars Zuckerberg was 22 at the time. He owned a quarter of the company. It was just a college site with maybe 35 million in revenues, no profits. And so we had a board meeting. Three of us met Monday morning, Zuckerberg starts the meeting off saying, well, this is a formality. Obviously, we're gonna turn this down. And myself, Jim Breyer, are the two investors on the board both said we should probably talk about this a little bit more and so it ended up being like a 6-hour long conversation. But it was sort of all about like, well Mark you'd make a quarter of $1 billion dollars. There's a lot you could do with this money. And I don't know what I'd do with the money. I would just start another social networking site. But I kind of like the one I have, so why would I get rid of it? And at the end of day, the key point that Mark made was that there a whole set of products that Facebook was still planning to build, so not just iterating, that it was planning to build that surely Yahoo was not valuing properly. And he was right. I mean the future is never valued

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When Yahoo offered us $1 billion dollars, Zuckerberg was 22 at the time. He owned a quarter of the company. Uh we were just a college site, we had maybe 30, 5 million in revenues, no profits. And so we had a board meeting, three of us met uh Monday morning. Zuckerberg starts the meeting off saying, well this is the formality, obviously we're going to turn this down. And uh myself, Jim Barry, the two investors on the board, both said, you know, we should probably talk about this a little bit more. And um and so it ended up being not a 10 minute being like a six-hour long conversation, but it was sort of all about like, well, Mark, you'd make a quarter of a billion dollars, there's a lot you could do with us money. Um, and well, I don't know what I do with the money. I would just start another social networking site, but um, but I kind of like the one I have, so why would I get rid of it? And um, and at the end of the day, the the the key the key point that uh that Mark made was that there were a whole set of products that Facebook was still planning to build. So not just editing uh that it was planning to build that surely Yah was not valuing properly. And um, and he was he was right. I mean, the future is never valued.