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People talk about Larry and Sergey being visionary entrepreneurs, but they attempted to sell their vision for $1M to Yahoo at some point. Mark, on the other han
by rokhayakebe 15y ago
People talk about Larry and Sergey being visionary entrepreneurs, but they attempted to sell their vision for $1M to Yahoo at some point. Mark, on the other hand, has declined every offer to sell FB. I personally think the guy is visionary.
- imjk 15y agoYou don't think that Mark Zuckerberg's "vision" has anything to do with the precedent set by prior entrepreneurs, including Larry and Sergei? Think about the consumer-facing internet companies that existed prior to 1999 when Larry and Sergei were in the early stages of their company versus what Zuckerberg had to look back on in 2005. A lot changed in those intervening years between 1999 and 2005.
- mahmud 15y agoThat's only because he succeeded. A lot of "visionaries" have become irrationally attached to failed ventures and drove themselves bankrupt. It's not necessarily a good idea to get too attached to a business. The whole point of finance is calculated risk taking.
- kul 15y agohe also cashed out in the series A to make himself wealthy, which made selling early less attractive. With the Yahoo negotiations, there was a price he would have sold at, they just took too long to reach it.
- kayoone 15y agosure that he cashed out so early ? Any source for that info ?
- jamiequint 15y agoIts in 'The Facebook Effect'
- shriphani 15y agoSearch was a technical achievement of such magnitude that the founders' first product was considered a seminal work in computer science. That is visionary bro.