Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Memo to Mark Zuckerberg: The Chicken or the Egg (or the Golden Ticket)

Kara Swisher in News on May 20, 2008 at 4:03 am PT

Maybe it would be easier to sell Facebook to Microsoft for billions and billions, even though it is not likely you will. But, for the sake of argument, let’s take the opposing position about the best future for the hot social-networking site. In other words, make a friendly Microsoft takeover of Facebook your own version of an IPO, as John Furrier has suggested, and walk away a Silicon Valley legend.