Episode of My First Million with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri.
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Kind: captions Language: en you were at however dwindle on Facebook at Harvard Mark Zuckerberg I went to college undergrad with me I was hissing classmate and so Facebook definitely existed before I was starting wearing best but I you know 2007-2008 when I was starting the idea Facebook I think was founded in like 2004 so he said but it was very much you know you weren’t building your business on you were at Harvard when he launched Facebook at Harvard remember when you heard about Facebook uh do we remember are you kidding you liked could never have forgotten um yeah I remember at actually at the end of your username what would be the number of Facebook user you were and I was like in the hundreds so I was like roughly around 150 uh and you knew it because it was just the most helpful thing on the planet it’s like oh what’s that person’s name again I can look them up um and I was joked with my husband when my husband asked me out I like couldn’t look up who he was yet he’d asked me out before Facebook existed and I remember being like how I can’t remember who he is like is it this guy or that guy and it just like my kids will never know a world where you like can’t look somebody up I mean it’s gonna be a big deal or were you like this is useful for Harvard and yeah I mean like could you foresee that it was gonna be like a seventy-five billion dollar company um you know I can’t take credit for having like something that was that kind of crystal ball ish but you knew it was a big deal um really quickly you could just tell it was like the amount of time you were spending on it how quickly was spreading at when it went to other colleges and you could look up you’re at those schools when you could poke people I mean it was you know to the credit of market was an incredibly infectious did you know him personally I know so I did know many we are an undergrad I met him a handful of times and I know his family and his siblings pretty well at but know when he was starting by joining when it was it’s like hey this thing is kind of taking off I’m extra now Harvard you were thinking about drop you know you dropped out of business school anyways to start a business I actually was thinking at that time of dropping out of Harvard to start learn that’s basically so my mom convinced me to graduate I said to her I want to go start a company I know I need to my mom was like can you just graduate pretty please I’ve gotten into Harvard Business School my mom was like huge at least graduate from from college and took my mom’s credit I did I’m glad I did but I that that itch to go start something was like pretty alive and I you know to the credit of like a Mark Zuckerberg when you are so close to seeing businesses get built you know I think they called it the Facebook effect which is when you can see how powerful the internet can be and if you’re a you a hardworking person who has skills you’re like huh maybe I should go do something and but I so so yes and I will definitely say I think Facebook’s spawned an entire you know you [Music]