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Mark Zuckerberg explains why turning down Yahoo's $1 billion Facebook offer hurt in a way nobody expected: "Yahoo came in with this really meaningful offer. I mean, a billion." "We had 10 million people using the product... It wasn't obvious we were going to succeed far beyond that." "The... show more

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Adam rejected a $600 million acquisition offer. His company is worth $170 billion today: “I like running my own business. It’s hard to imagine me as an employee.” “We were just growing really quickly and doing $50 million of EBITDA and we started getting offers from other tech companies to buy us. We got an offer for $600 million in cash. The challenge with that was we were still growing 100% year over year. But there’s a lot of zeros in $600 million. The problem was between the time of seeing that number and getting to a deal, your business has grown a ton. I would have sold the company but not at that number. I ended up walking away from the deal.” —- I asked Adam what the number would have had to been and he said $1 billion. Turning down this deal was one of the best decisions of Adam’s career. This is what he said: “We would have left a lot of money on the table. Most businesses when they sell, they lose the opportunity to keep innovating. Had we done that none of us would have known what this company could have become.”

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165,292 views • 5 months ago

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