{"id":3656,"date":"2012-04-09T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=3656"},"modified":"2012-04-08T23:17:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T03:17:29","slug":"times-when-facebook-nearly-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/times-when-facebook-nearly-ended\/","title":{"rendered":"Times When Facebook Nearly Ended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Centives\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/040812_2345_TimesWhenFa1.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an article provocatively titled &#8220;11 Dumb Moves That Should Have Cost Mark Zuckerberg His $25 Billion Fortune&#8221; Nicholas Carlson looks at moments when we almost lost Facebook. Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Zuckerberg agreed to sell Facebook to Yahoo for $1 billion. Yahoo&#8217;s CEO backed out in the last minute.<\/li>\n<li>Zuckerberg wanted to abandon Facebook after a year and work on a different start-up instead. He was talked out of it.<\/li>\n<li>He was also against allowing people to share photos on Facebook. Once again he was talked out of this one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read about how Eduardo Saverin, Divvya Narendra, Sean Parker, and the Winklevoss brothers of <em>The Social Network <\/em>fame figured into what is, essentially, a revisionist look at the history of Facebook, the off-putting things that Zuckerberg has said, and other interesting moments that could have transformed Facebook from the company we know and love (Centives&#8217; own Facebook page can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Centives\">here<\/a>) read the rest of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/11-dumb-moves-mark-zuckerberg-that-should-have-cost-him-his-25-billion-fortune-2012-2?op=1\">the article.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/11-dumb-moves-mark-zuckerberg-that-should-have-cost-him-his-25-billion-fortune-2012-2?op=1\">Business Insider<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmarksdoor.com\/mainblog\/2012\/03\/11-dumb-moves-that-should-have-cost-mark-zuckerberg-his-25-billion-fortune.html\">Newmark&#8217;s Door<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article provocatively titled &#8220;11 Dumb Moves That Should Have Cost Mark Zuckerberg His $25 Billion Fortune&#8221; Nicholas Carlson looks at moments when we almost lost Facebook. Highlights include: Zuckerberg agreed to sell Facebook to Yahoo for $1 billion. Yahoo&#8217;s CEO backed out in the last minute. Zuckerberg wanted to abandon Facebook after a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/040812_2345_TimesWhenFa1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3656"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3685,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions\/3685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}