Imagine Turning Down the Opportunity to Buy Google for $1 Million in '98
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Can’t even imagine what other companies have regrets now that certain companies now is worth billions and they passed on them
Everyone had a search engine back then.
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I'm sure they're not thinking about that 30 years later. Facts are that none of these people are broke and they always have their hands in something else that's generating money for them. All them people are millionaires.
Lol if you passed on investing in Google when it was worth $1 million, you're definitely still thinking about it. Magic Johnson still talks about not accepting the shoe deal with Nike offering him equity when it was a startup. Just accepting that deal from Nike would've eclipsed everything else he's done in business.
Didnt Blockbuster have a chance to either acquire or merge with Netflix? Hindsight is 20/20. For every Google you got a million startups that fail. Foresight and knowledge is important but sometimes good ol fashioned luck comes into play.
Yeah Blockbuster could've acquired Netflix for $50 million. But it was easier predict that search would be huge vs Netflix since it was before streaming.
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I walk around a little edgy already
Why were they selling Google for that low of a bag?
The founders created Google as part of their master's research project. They wanted to sell it and go back to their studies lol.
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Would it still have became the same Google if another company owned it ?
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Blockbuster coulda copped Netflix but felt like Internet movie watching was a phase that would die out, or atleast not be feasible.
I'd want to believe some CEO's got force fed poison off the strength of this erroneous decision.