The power of vision and resilence in the Tech world

This young CEO turned down a $1.5 BILLION offer from Mark Zuckerberg. Everyone said he was crazy. Zuckerberg was furious , he threatened to copy the entire product and vowed to crush the company . But today t hat same company is worth over $13 BILLION and it’s 10x better. Here’s how one bold “NO” rewrote tech history forever: In November 2013 , A 23-year-old Evan Spiegel, co-founder of a rising photo-sharing app called Snapchat, flies to Los Angeles for a private meeting . Waiting for him is Mark Zuckerberg, then 26, the billionaire CEO of Facebook. At the time Facebook is worth $104 billion Snapchat was just 2 years old, run by college dropouts with zero revenue But Snapchat is growing fast. Too fast that Zuckerberg sees it as a threat . So he makes a bold move He offers $1.5 billion in cash to buy Snapchat and shut down the competition. But what happened next shocked everyone. Evan Spiegel didn’t even let Mark Zuckerberg finish his pitch. He rejected th...