So the offer was turned down and his entire management team reportedly left in protest. “The part that was painful wasn’t turning down the offer,” Zuckerberg is quoted as saying in the book. “It was the fact that after that, huge amounts of the company quit because they didn’t believe in what we were doing.” Facebook would bat away interest from a veritable who’s who of companies between 2004 and 2007, and to put it diplomatically, not all of them are thriving in 2021. Google and News Corp are still very much alive and kicking, but MySpace and Friendster … less so.