BUILD AND GROW
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The Day Zuckerberg Turned Down Yahoo's $1 Billion Allison Fass reporting on Peter Thiel’s talk at SXSW this year where he recounted the time in 2006 that Mark Zuckerberg turned down Yahoo’s $1 billion offer to buy Facebook:
His only partial rationalization at the time was that in the history of Yahoo, it had made two $1 billion offers that were also turned down. And those were to eBay and Google. “At least I could actually make a pseudo-scientific argument that in every case Yahoo offered $1 billion and it was rejected, it was the correct thing to do,” said Thiel.
I should say that I know absolutely nothing about any sort of talks/deals between Tumblr and Yahoo. And I’m not sharing this to suggest that Tumblr should turn down such a supposed offer (my initial gut feeling is actually that such a partnership would make a lot of sense). I just found it fascinating given how closely the reported number is to the key number repeated in Thiel’s story.
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Tego Audio makes the most amazing speakers. @TegoAudio grew sales 230% last year because of @Fab. #lovewhatyoulove
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Truth from Henry David Thoreau, in Tolstoy’s A Calendar of Wisdom.
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832. Bockwurst
As promised, here is the bockwurst I mentioned yesterday.
I hadn’t tried bockwurst before. I love other German sausages but this was one I hadn’t had the chance to try. It’s relatively common to find stands selling bratwurst in the UK (especially around Christmas), but that’s usually where the selection ends. The bockwurst to me seemed to be a bit like a cross between a bratwurst and a frankfurter. It had a frankfurter-like taste and texture inside, but with the nice grilled, crispy outside of a brat. Overall it was totally delicious and I would very much like another one!
832 down, 964 to go
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Beautifully minimalist line-drawing postcards of London Underground train depots. Complement with a pictorial history of how the Underground shaped London.
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(via afinefrenzy)
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“You do something all day long, don’t you? Every one does. If you get up at seven o’clock and go to bed at eleven, you have put in sixteen good hours, and it is certain with most men, that they have been doing something all the time. They have been either walking, or reading, or writing, or thinking. The only trouble is that they do it about a great many things and I do it about one. If they took the time in question and applied it in one direction, to one object, they would succeed. Success is sure to follow such application. The trouble lies in the fact that people do not have an object, one thing, to which they stick, letting all else go. Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.” — Thomas Edison, born on this day in 1847, on the secrets of success (via explore-blog)(via explore-blog)
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“The secret to mastering your time is to systematically focus on importance and suppress urgency.” —How to master your time. Pair with the psychology of a successful to-do list.
(↬ Swiss Miss)
(via explore-blog)
