> There was no negotiation. In fact, one party(Dalton) did not come to negotiate. The other party clearly did.
Is it that clear? We weren't there.
Perhaps the Facebook executives listened to a presentation about his product for an hour, and realized during that time that the presented product was basically identical to their own intended product, so the last part of the meeting ended up revolving around "hey, looks we might compete with you - or, we might hire you if that interests you".
Maybe it didn't go like that. Maybe they stopped him after 1 slide and told him "your app competes with us. Let us buy you, or die."
Huge range in between those two. You and I (unless you are one of the people that was in that meeting) can't know where things fell.
I don't think you have been reading the source material closely. It wasn't the case they suddenly realized. They knew about his product. They had encouraged him to build it.
Is it that clear? We weren't there.
Perhaps the Facebook executives listened to a presentation about his product for an hour, and realized during that time that the presented product was basically identical to their own intended product, so the last part of the meeting ended up revolving around "hey, looks we might compete with you - or, we might hire you if that interests you".
Maybe it didn't go like that. Maybe they stopped him after 1 slide and told him "your app competes with us. Let us buy you, or die."
Huge range in between those two. You and I (unless you are one of the people that was in that meeting) can't know where things fell.