{"id":203,"date":"2010-04-25T19:46:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T19:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/post\/2010\/04\/25\/Buy-Google-for-24750000-No-thanks.aspx"},"modified":"2010-04-25T19:46:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T19:46:48","slug":"buy-google-for-750000-no-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebirdfeeder.us\/blog\/2010\/04\/buy-google-for-750000-no-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy Google for $750,000? No, thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"In 1999, Google (GOOG) founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin offered Excite their business for $1 million. Bell deemed it too high, and a second offer of $750,000 was also roundly rejected.\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/thebirdfeeder.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image_42.png\" width=\"504\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>In 1999, <a href=\"http:\/\/moneycentral.msn.com\/detail\/stock_quote?Symbol=GOOG\">Google (GOOG)<\/a> founders <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/search?FORM=msmony&amp;q=Larry+Page+and+Sergey+Brin\">Larry Page and Sergey Brin<\/a> offered Excite their business for $1 million. Bell deemed it too high, and a second offer of $750,000 was also roundly rejected. <\/p>\n<p>Google is a $180 billion company today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.moneycentral.msn.com\/Investing\/Extra\/the-dumbest-business-decisions.aspx?slide-number=2#q=The%208%20dumbest%20business%20decisions%3A%20Buy%20Google%20for%20%24750%2C000%3F%20No%2C%20thanks\" target=\"_blank\">Story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1999, Google (GOOG) founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin offered Excite their business for $1 million. Bell deemed it too high, and a second offer of $750,000 was also roundly rejected. Google is a $180 billion company today. Story\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebirdfeeder.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebirdfeeder.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebirdfeeder.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebirdfeeder.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebirdfeeder.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebirdfeeder.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebirdfeeder.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebirdfeeder.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebirdfeeder.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}