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# Maybe Shoulda Taken That Billion Dollars
- URL: https://www.bramadams.dev/202301031418/
- Published: 2023-01-28T09:30:40.000Z
- Updated: 2023-01-28T09:30:40.000Z
- Author: Bram Adams

> In 2013, Facebook offered to buy Snap for $3B. The CEO turned them down.  
> Today, Snap is worth $21B.  
> But had they sold for $3B in Facebook stock and held, they would have $22B.  
> Lesson: always sell. ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/ChrisJBakke/status/1529289641240645632?ref=bramadams.dev))

[How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars](https://bram-adams.ghost.io/How%20to%20Turn%20Down%20a%20Billion%20Dollars?ref=bramadams.dev) is looking less and less like a "visionary win" for Evan Speigel, and more like a omen about the trouble of monetizing a business model when your core audience is full of teens who are trying to send lewd pics back and forth.