I want to talk for a second about low points I think it's always reassuring to hear that even Mark Zuckerberg went through some serious low points and came out okay so can you tell us about some of the hardest parts in the history of the early history of Facebook yeah I think one of the hardest parts for me was actually when Yahoo offered to buy the company for for a lot of money you know at the end of that Dustin and I just decided you know we think that we can actually go connect more than
just the 10 million people who are in schools we can go beyond that and have this really be a successful thing we just had to go for it but it was really stressful because a lot of people really thought that we should sell the company the part that was painful wasn't wasn't turning down the offer it was the fact that after that a huge amounts of the company quit because they didn't believe in what we were what we were doing right I mean if you look at the management team that we had did that problem
management team leave the whole management team who was gone within within about a year after that what about the the bigger bets like making a large acquisition or the rollout of a news feed or something like that how do you edit those decisions work so I actually think when you do stuff well you don't you you shouldn't have to do big crazy things you know we bought you know the oculus team for a lot of money that as you know if we've done a better job of building up some of the expertise to do some
of that stuff internally then you know maybe we wouldn't have had to do that but you know instead we hadn't done that and you know the oculus team is by far the most talented team working on that problem so it just made sense to go make this big move but I actually kind of think as a CEO it's your job to not get into a position where you need to be doing these crazy things right yes you know of course it's inevitable you know over the period of doing stuff you'll you know you can't be
ahead of everything so it's better to to make big moves and be willing to do that then you know have pride and not do that and never admit that you that you could have done something better in the past but but then when stuff is working well you're you're learning incrementally and and growing that way
