Mark Zuckerberg did something I don't know if I could ever do: he walked away from a $1 billion deal. Wow.
Part of me doesn't get it. I mean, everyone has a price, right? That's a big chunk of change to swallow. $1 billion!!! My mind starts to swim just thinking about all those zeros. I don't even think I could make a dent in that, and I spend money like the best of them.
However, to a different part of me it makes perfect sense. Zuckerberg has been submerged in this project for years. He watched it grow, nurtured and cared for it, saw it through good times and bad. It's like planting a garden, or raising a baby. Of course it has some sentimental value. $1 billion of sentimental value, but still. For example: I built my own tiki bar. On my balcony of my apartment building. I never built anything before in my whole life. It is gorgeous, if I do say so myself. All together, costs were about $400 bucks. But I would protect it with my life. Now if someone offered me big bucks for the tiki bar, maybe I would sell it. But it would be a hard decision.
Some think Zuckerberg is an idiot for walking away. I think it's really cool he stood by what he believed in. Kudos!!!
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If Zuckerberg did sell for $1 billion, would that have been the end of his relationship with his billion-dollar baby? Maybe he felt that he didn't want to let go of his invention just yet, and with people telling you it is worth more than that, maybe we would have made the same decision. He figured that offer would only grow so why not stay with it a little longer, and that worked out for him in the long run.
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