8 Geeks Who Walked Out on Startups that Made Billions
2. Joe Jackson
Chose internship at JP Morgan against co-founding Facebook
When Zuckerberg asked Joe to join Facebook on its first Silicon Valley summer, his Harvard classmate turned down the offer to choose the much secured internship at JP Morgan. “I completely missed the boat. I wasn’t thinking about it as ‘This could be my chance to be rich and famous.' It was more like, ‘This is going to Palo Alto and living in a house with a bunch of kids and programming for a startup that may not go anywhere," says Joe at a Bloomberg Business Week interview.
