The emotional resilience required by founders, particularly when facing rejection or "no"s from potential investors, highlighting.
The emotional resilience required by founders, particularly when facing rejection or "no"s from potential investors, highlighting the psychological toll and coping mechanisms for navigating the startup fundraising journey.
I did try to buy the whole thing. Zuckerberg came up to Seattle. We met down there. I put a concrete financial offer on the table, but it's a little bit Ross Perot tried to buy Microsoft from Bill Gates in like '79 and Bill said no. Founders really have a lot of love and passion around their stuff and even though Facebook was tiny, I think it was 2009 and I offered, I don't know, 20 plus billion dollars, something like that. And Mark had absolutely no interest. >> Facebook headquarters in downtown Palo Alto looks like a dorm room. The 400 employees who get free food and laundry show up late, stay late, and party really late. Zuckerberg, who's made the cover of Newsweek and is reportedly worth 3 billion dollars, sits at a desk like the other software engineers writing computer code. >> Have you changed your lifestyle? You don't look like you're buying really expensive clothes.
>> No, I'm not buying really expensive clothes. >> Are you buying things? Are you buying things that you would would be >> No, no, I have a little like one-bedroom apartment with a mattress on the floor. That's the That's where I live.