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If you were to ask legendary investor Peter Thiel about the most important moment in Facebook history, he would point to an exchange in July 2006.

Yahoo had made the lucrative offer of $1 billion for Facebook, and Peter Thiel as well as board member Jim Breyer got called into a meeting about the deal with Mark Zuckerberg.

H/T Visual Capitalist

Turning Down Billions: Grading 15 Tech Companies That Declined Big Takeover Offers

Tech Companies that Declined Big Takeover Offers Infographic

Infographic source: Entrepreneur

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