Who knows where the Facebook path may have taken him. He may have made millions, or Zuckerberg could have just easily farked him over in the first couple of months and he would still would have not profited.

Maybe I'm mis-reading it, but does this line seem to contradict the gist of the article?

FTA: Green, the roommate who said "no" to what became a Web behemoth, has no regrets, although he does have plenty of Facebook stock, and he's found his own cause.


If he has lots of FB stock, kinda seems like he's about to get rich on FB anyway.

So hes running an app that markets people to solicit money is somehow equal to being a billionaire?

/is subby a hippy?

Harvard Graduate Doing Okay

Shocking headline there.

Sun Worshiping Dog Launcher: Who knows where the Facebook path may have taken him. He may have made millions, or Zuckerberg could have just easily farked him over in the first couple of months and he would still would have not profited.

Let it go, Winklevoss.

Hardly comparable, but in 1995 I turned down an offer to start up an "internet company" with a couple other engineers because none of us were EE or CS types. A few years later, after doing some work on how to improve the use of cable TV lines to provide internet service, the three of them sold the company to Warner Cable for a little over $24 million.

/ I would have drank it all away anyway . . .
// Damn it . . .

I knew someone who quit a job at Google to work the Ron Paul campaign. Dumbass.

Meh, it's easy to second guess what could have happen. Have he stayed on, Facebook could have made different business decision, the founders may have clashed against one another, different kinda of people may have been recruited, and become just another Friendster. Who know, really.

I was offered the chance to quit grad school to go work at an internet start-up on the other side of the country. I declined, citing my desire to graduate.

I made the right call, as the project crashed and burned magnificently. You never know how these things are going to turn out.

Life's like that, folks. You pays yer dime, you takes yer chances.

I had a chance to get in on the ground floor of a start-up that went huge. Another time, I also had a chance to invest in a small chain of local hardware stores called The Home Depot. Another time, I had two job offers on the table at once and almost certainly chose the wrong one. And so on...

You can't think about that shiat. That way leads madness.

And on balance, I'm one of the luckiest bastards who ever lived.

OgreMagi: I knew someone who quit a job at Google to work the Ron Paul campaign. Dumbass.

Sounds like it worked out pretty well for Google, then.

Back in the early 90's I had this idea to start an internet to sell images of women and men performing sexual acts on each other. Glad I continued with my career path... I'm sure that whole "naked women on the internet" thing never really panned out anyway.

karmaceutical: Back in the early 90's I had this idea to start an internet to sell images of women and men performing sexual acts on each other. Glad I continued with my career path... I'm sure that whole "naked women on the internet" thing never really panned out anyway.

You're sarcastic, but online porn actually doesn't make much or, really, any money for about 99.999% of the people trying to publish/distribute it. Not because it's not popular so much as because basically everyone is trying to do it, so if you don't have economies of scale on par with Brazzers/Vivid or a corner on a really specific niche then someone else is out-competing you for sure.

Though I guess if you can get a job in the acting end of it that pays decently, I'm told.

Jim_Callahan: karmaceutical: Back in the early 90's I had this idea to start an internet to sell images of women and men performing sexual acts on each other. Glad I continued with my career path... I'm sure that whole "naked women on the internet" thing never really panned out anyway.

You're sarcastic, but online porn actually doesn't make much or, really, any money for about 99.999% of the people trying to publish/distribute it. Not because it's not popular so much as because basically everyone is trying to do it, so if you don't have economies of scale on par with Brazzers/Vivid or a corner on a really specific niche then someone else is out-competing you for sure.

Though I guess if you can get a job in the acting end of it that pays decently, I'm told.

Not really. I know a woman who had a short stint in the industry. The vast majority of the people in the industry get paid very little, it's only the top stars who make the big bucks.

Article subtext: "Mark Zuckerberg is such a douche-hole that this guy said 'no' to Facebook."

(additional comedy: subby is living in his mom's basement.)

Over the years working at my last job I had lots of people offer to bring me in on their "big deal". Mostly it was people that wanted to open a bar or club but they had zero business sense. Glad I never gave them a dime. They would spend thousands at clubs doing "research". My dumb ex got involved with a few of them, I warned her not to but what do I know.