On This Day In History: Microsoft Invested $240M in Young Mark Zuckerberg
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Subscribe to The Hustle Daily Newsletter: https://clickhubspot.com/u86 On this day in 2007, Microsoft made a $240M bet on Mark Zuckerberg. At the time, Facebook had a mere 50 million active users. Microsoft and Google were in a vicious fight to invest in the company. But former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was the most bullish. He outbid Google to grab a 1.6% chunk of Facebook. Video Hosted by Michael Sikand.