Comment Re:I'd take the money and run (Score 1) 250
He's not following in Bill Gates's path at all. 2 years after it was founded, Microsoft had 6 employees. Facebook has more than 10 times that. Microsoft sold DOS to IBM for something like $75k, which was around the same as FaceBook's revenues last year, and significantly less than the total amount of venture money invested in FaceBook. Microsoft didn't go public until 10 years after its founding, and its market cap then is well under what Mark is asking for FaceBook now.
