Zuckerberg's early start chat record exposure: plans to sell Facebook

http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/17197.html "> Beijing time February 1 news, according to Science and technology blog BusinessInsider report, This week Facebook will submit a prospectus (IPO) to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). People close to the situation said the company's market capitalisation was estimated at between 75 billion and 100 billion dollars by the end of the May transaction.

But the fact that Facebook was created and even maintained is not a well-planned result. While chatting with friends, Zuckerberg talked about the intent to build dating sites and eventually dropped out of business. In addition, according to Zuckerberg's chat record, Facebook was not the first choice for his business, and even had to sell Facebook to Google.

In the fall of 2003, Mr. Zuckerberg chatted with his high school friend Adam Anguillo Adam Dangelo that some of the Harvard seniors recently wanted him to build a "dating site" or "something like Facebook". Zuckerberg and Angelo discuss what "something like Facebook" should be.

Here's a dialog excerpt:

Zuckerberg: So you know how I designed this dating site.

Zuckerberg: I don't know how similar this is to "something like Facebook".

Zuckerberg: Because they could be rolled out at the same time.

Zuckerberg: Unless I give up dating sites.

Angelo: haha.

Zuckerberg: I think people don't want to register after they know Facebook is a dating site.

Zuckerberg: People are skeptical about making friends.

Zuckerberg: But people who make dating sites will advertise it fairly well.

Zuckerberg: I want to know what the ideal solution is.

Zuckerberg: I think that something like Facebook should be attractive, unless it's in the same time as a dating site.

Zuckerberg: So two things will affect each other and no one will win. Do you have any ideas? Merge the two or something?

Angelo: We can integrate them into a friendster-like community of friends. That's what's inside Stanford.

Zuckerberg: Well ... I want to turn Facebook into that. Unlike them, you need to invite friends to join your community.

Angelo: Yes.

Zuckerberg: I like doing things like this for someone else haha, just as I don't like to be in the hands of others. I want to be ready in all things, everyone rolled out their own stuff and say, "Oh, you're not as good as me, if you want to join me ... Otherwise I'll help you later. " Is it too wicked?

Angelo: You can do that.

Zuckerberg: But they have the money and the ability to advertise. Oh, wait, I have money! I have a friend who wants to invest in this, this is an investment-oriented society. Brazil's insider trading is not illegal, so he's rich and lol.

Angelo: lol.

This dialogue has two key points:

This is the moment Zuckerberg decided not to work for others, he wants to build his own things, that is, later on Facebook.

It's Angie, not Mr. Zuckerberg. suggested that the site be built like a Friendster community.

A few months after the conversation, Mr. Zuckerberg's Facebook, called Thefacebook, with the help of several Harvard colleagues, was booming.

The following summer, Zuckerberg and his partners moved to California to start working full-time for Facebook. At the end of July, 7 months after the launch of the site, Facebook had reached 1 million subscribers.

But the announcement of another IM conversation showed that Facebook was not the first choice for Zuckerberg at the time.

This dialogue took place on July 26, 2004, and the following is an excerpt:

CHUM: You should recover the shares, you have to recover the legal fees.

Zuckerberg: I won't pay the legal fees.

Zuckerberg: it will pay to buy our company.

CHUM: That's good, hopefully that day will come soon so you can do what you want to do.

Zuckerberg: Well, that could spur the development of Wirehog, a file-sharing service that Zuckerberg was operating at the time.

CHUM: So you got a domestic endorsement?

Zuckerberg: whose endorsement?

Zuckerberg: Oh, more vcs. It still talks to Google and Friendster.

This dialogue indicates that:

• Even if millions of people are fascinated by Facebook, Zuckerberg is still not sure whether running this is a waste of time. For him, Facebook is just a "stimulus wirehog" tool.

• Google was only a step away from acquiring Facebook.