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September 21, 2006
Reason #107 For Facebook Not Selling Sooner
LEBOWSKIHere, apparently, is Reason #107 for Facebook not having been sold sooner, despite talks with Microsoft and Yahoo. From today's WSJ:
Are you employed, sir?
DUDE
Employed?
LEBOWSKI
You don't go out and make a living dressed like that in the middle of a weekday.
DUDE
Is this a--what day is this?
-- from The Big Lebowski (1998)
During one series of talks with Microsoft, Facebook executives told their Microsoft peers they couldn't do an 8 a.m. conference call because the company's 22-year-old founder and chief executive, Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg, wouldn't be awake, says a person familiar with the talks.While it likely goes without saying, if Facebook is somehow worth $1-billion, then YouTube must be worth, like, at least a zillion dude. Oh wait, apparently it's not -- yet.
...[Zuckerberg] says he generally works late -- he recalls eating French fries recently in the parking lot of a local McDonald's restaurant at 3 a.m. -- and doesn't get to work early. "I'm in the office at 10:30 a.m. sometimes," he says.
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Maybe it was beer, not fries? :)
Anyway, Big Lebowski is one of the funniest movies ever made.
Great quote - from the greatest of the Coen Brother's movies.
However, I call BS on the alibi for not waking early, since I don't think there is a McDonalds within a 10mi radius of Univ. Ave in PA that would actually be open at 3am!
They all close around 11pm up here. Those would be some cold fries.