He’s Just Not That Into You, Steve: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Mark Zuckerberg
by John Paczkowski
Posted on May 19, 2008 at 8:02 AM PT
If Microsoft is buying, Facebook ain’t selling.
Commenting on rumors that Microsoft (MSFT) may soon acquire the 98.4% of the social-networking phenom that it doesn’t yet own, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he’d prefer to keep things as they are now. Said Zuckerberg, “You can tell, from our history and what we’ve done, that we really wanted to keep the company independent, by focusing on building and focusing on the long-term.”
And focusing too on that rumored IPO and the fantastical $15 billion valuation it’s supposed to bring with it.
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If wishes were horses, all Facebookers would ride!
But alas, even though BoomTown is also intrigued by the idea as much as tech bloggers Robert Scoble and John Furrier, Facebook is not about to be bought by Microsoft.
