Yahoo makes a deal with Google for Google search results and revenue. Realizes that they are a portal and should stay as one. Identity crisis, solved.
Microsoft keeps wooing Facebook in an attempt to overcompensate for its incompetent innovation. Facebook, ahem: Zuckerberg, can’t detach from his “baby,” resulting in a souring deal.
Microsoft says Facebook isn’t worth it, Facebook gets devalued, Facebook never has an offer like I’m sure they’re receiving now.
Zuckerberg realizes that the big picture he sees is like a Monet: It looks great from a distance, but once you get close to it, it’s just a bunch of thick, heavy brushstrokes.
Zuckerberg, at the age of 80, reminisces about “the old days”….from his cardboard box on the corner of Emerson and University.
Microsoft keeps “hanging in there.” Like a champ. Kiddo.
Google buys Facebook in 3 years for less than MySpace’s $580m.