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Mridul Das
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A young CEO once rejected $1.5 BILLION๐ต from Mark Zuckerbergโฆ and then watched Zuck try to crush him. But It didnโt work. Today, that same company is worth over $45 BILLION.๐ต Letโs rewind:โ๏ธ November 2013 โ A 23-year-old startup๐ founder takes a flightโ๏ธ to LA ๐for a mysterious meeting with Facebookโs 26-year-old CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. At the time: Facebook = $104B beast๐ฅ His startup? Just a 2-year-old app. Revenue? Zero. Nada.๐ป Zuckerberg puts a $1.5B๐ต all-cash offer on the table. The response? โNo thanks.โ Just like that. Cold. Quick. Confident. Everyone around him thought heโd lost it. Zuck didnโt take it lightly. He launched โPokeโ โ a near-carbon copy of the startup. The message was loud: โEither sellโฆ or get stomped.โ But hereโs what that young founder knew: 350 million snaps sent every day 71% of users were under 25๐ฅ The average user opened the app 18+ times daily๐ฅ Gen Z was slipping from Facebookโs handsโฆ and landing straight into his app. Despite the attack, โPokeโ flopped hard. In 2014, Zuckerberg came back with double the offer: $3 BILLION.๐ต The board was sweating. Investors were begging. But againโฆ โNo.โ People called him arrogant. Naive. Reckless. Today? Heโs Evan Spiegel. CEO of Snapchat. And that โrecklessโ decision? The clones failed. The company thrived. Snapchat now sits comfortably at a $45B+ valuation.๐ต โค๏ธlike this post if you like it ๐
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