Facebook isn't just popular with its 1.3 billion
(and counting) users.
According to "The Facebook Effect," Fortune editor David
Kirkpatrick's brilliantly-reported book about the company's founding, Facebook
has also always been very popular with executives hungry for a merger or
acquisition.
As early as four months after
Facebook's inception, investors and executives began lining up to beg Facebook
co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to take their cash and sell the
company. Zuckerberg turned all their offers down, but some
got much closer than we ever imagined.
Here are all the times that Facebook
almost sold out: See list after the cut...