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Monday, October 22, 2012
'If I wasn't at Facebook I'd be at Microsoft'
Mark Zuckerberg has revealed that if Facebook hadn't panned out, he would have probably landed at Microsoft.
The social networking mogul opened up about his startup experience and opined on the problems with entrepreneurs these days, in a talk at Startup School, the annual conference for entrepreneurs and computer hackers at Stanford University held on Saturday.
Though Facebook's lagging stock performance has been the topic du jour, the Zuck instead shared tales of his early years at Harvard, his path to becoming one of the most powerful figures in Silicon Valley and even imagined what he would have done if things had turned out differently.
Even though Facebook is one of the most visited pages on the web, employs nearly 4,000 people and boasts 1 billion users worldwide - the founder divulged that he most likely would have made his way to Seattle if his idea had flopped.
'I probably would have taken an engineering job…[and] always had a lot of respect for Microsoft,' he told Paul Graham, a co-founder of the tech venture capital fun Y Combinator, during a 45-minute interview before an audience of 1,700 at Stanford's Memorial Hall, according to CNET.
'A lot of people from Harvard went to work there,' he added.
Though his college adventures have been widely discussed after the release of The Social Network, an Aaron Sorkin film about his undergrad experience, Zuckerberg provided his account of his school days...and was the first to admit he wasn't the model student.
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