Because this is one of my favourite topic to discuss, I found this remark by Tony (who is currently having fun / working hard at SXSW) to be quite interesting:

“This thing that im in, this sxsw thing, is not just about the future its about the present. there were two big huge keynotes over the last two days. the first was on sunday with the twentysomething yr old founder of facebook who was offered a half billion for his site and said no and was offered over a billion for his shit and said ha and today his site is allegedly worth 15 billion dollars and he still isnt selling out.

gen y taking a chapter outta the book of gen x which is fuck you and your fucking money.”

Funny since I am still a sucker for half-understanding a generation via clichés relayed by the media, and Gen X to me still is about slackers. But it also is about a whole generation which didn’t quite get and feared the transition between the late 90s official way of doing business and the so-called revolution that ensued.

Now let it be said that I don’t doubt Mark Zuckerberg will wait and capitalise on Facebook before finally letting it go (who wouldn’t care about the money?) but to be honest, why would he sell it right now?

When the Youtube founders decided to finally sell their product to Google, part of me thought that it was too early for them to do so. But hey, with 1.65 billion in their pockets, I’m not sure that the Gen Y is not about the money, as Tony suggested. As people pointed out at the time, “if I had sold my company for a billion, I would probably be would have uploaded a video showing myself and work sporting a shit-eating grin on my site, too”.