Rejection to $19 BILLION!

Four years ago, Brian Acton was looking for a job.

His job at Yahoo, where he’d filled many engineering roles over 11 years, had come to an end.

He was networking with recruiters:

He met with Twitter. Twitter said no. He met with Facebook. Facebook said no.

So he and Jan Koum, a colleague from Yahoo, set out to do their own thing.

Today, they sold that thing to Facebook for 19 billion dollars.

Life is crazy.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/19/how-things-change/?utm_campaign=fb&nci…

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ManInJeans

spent 2 hours reading 3 years' worth of GS elevator gossip. I am content.

haha, this is the extent of my twitter use too
 

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