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Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook’s board ‘tried to fire’ him after rejecting Yahoo’s $1B offer in 2006 — now the tech giant is worth $1.7T. Here’s the big get-rich lesson from Zuck’s savvy move

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Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook, once a simple networking site built in his Harvard dorm room, has grown into Meta Platforms .

Zuckerberg ’s savvy move highlights a key lesson for long-term investors: don’t sell your winners early.

Even the best hyper-growth companies take several years , if not decades, to live up to their full potential.

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