Joe Green, former dorm mate of Mark Zuckerberg (creator of Facebook) will forever have to live with the decision his father had encouraged him to make. When Zuckerberg presented the idea of creating a new social network, Joe Green looked to his father for advice, who is a professor at UCLA. Of course, the suggestion of dropping out of University and innovating a product that was not a 100% guarantee of being successful was a risky choice if he said yes, so his father told him not to join Zuckerberg and to continue with his studies. This decision proved to become a $10b mistake and will forever hang over Green as one of the biggest mistakes of his life.
Personally I would have probably made the same decision. Considering the fact that he went to an Ivy League school (Harvard), it seemed pretty normal that his father was not impressed with him wanted to leave the infamous school and create a website that could’ve easily failed. So yes, I would’ve stayed put in school and tried to make something of myself, WITH a university degree.
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