On: Departing co-founder of Bebo talks about leaving, Facebook, Friendster and more

[paul]

"As a side note, a little known fact is that when I was at Friendster, I found a small company out of Harvard that we came very close to acquiring, a startup no one had heard of that time, a company named The Facebook."

[ereldon → paul]

I remember hearing somewhere that the amount Friendster offered Facebook then was something like $10 million.

I'm sure a lot of people told Zuckerberg he was crazy not to take the money and run.