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Mridul Das

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A young CEO once rejected $1.5 BILLION๐Ÿ’ต from Mark Zuckerbergโ€ฆ and then watched Zuck try to crush him. But It didnโ€™t work. Today, that same company is worth over $45 BILLION.๐Ÿ’ต Letโ€™s rewind:โš”๏ธ November 2013 โ€” A 23-year-old startup๐Ÿš€ founder takes a flightโœˆ๏ธ to LA ๐ŸŒƒfor a mysterious meeting with Facebookโ€™s 26-year-old CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. At the time: Facebook = $104B beast๐Ÿ”ฅ His startup? Just a 2-year-old app. Revenue? Zero. Nada.๐Ÿ”ป Zuckerberg puts a $1.5B๐Ÿ’ต all-cash offer on the table. The response? โ€œNo thanks.โ€ Just like that. Cold. Quick. Confident. Everyone around him thought heโ€™d lost it. Zuck didnโ€™t take it lightly. He launched โ€œPokeโ€ โ€” a near-carbon copy of the startup. The message was loud: โ€œEither sellโ€ฆ or get stomped.โ€ But hereโ€™s what that young founder knew: 350 million snaps sent every day 71% of users were under 25๐Ÿ’ฅ The average user opened the app 18+ times daily๐Ÿ’ฅ Gen Z was slipping from Facebookโ€™s handsโ€ฆ and landing straight into his app. Despite the attack, โ€œPokeโ€ flopped hard. In 2014, Zuckerberg came back with double the offer: $3 BILLION.๐Ÿ’ต The board was sweating. Investors were begging. But againโ€ฆ โ€œNo.โ€ People called him arrogant. Naive. Reckless. Today? Heโ€™s Evan Spiegel. CEO of Snapchat. And that โ€œrecklessโ€ decision? The clones failed. The company thrived. Snapchat now sits comfortably at a $45B+ valuation.๐Ÿ’ต โค๏ธlike this post if you like it ๐Ÿš€

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