This Guy Just Turned Down $100 Million from Google  Dave Morin
is among the luckiest guys in Silicon Valley. After a stint as
an Apple college rep, he joined Facebook right before it blew
up. Then Google offered $100 million for his obscure startup—and
Morin rejected it.  If 31-year-old Morin wants to try and double
down on his good fortune, well, that's his prerogative, but it's
hard to fathom his reasoning. Path, the intimate social network
he started after leaving Facebook, counts its users in the
hundreds of thousands, versus Facebook's hundreds of millions.
It's tiny, and few people outside of Silicon Valley have heard
of it. Which is why it's surprising that Path turned down a $100
million acquisition offer from Google, and took an $8.5 million
funding round instead. What?  It's enough to make you wonder if
all Morin's partying in the tropics—Camp Cyrpus in the
Mediterranean, the "Summit Series" in Cancun, and the Maldives
where Morin elaborately proposed to his Googler girlfriend—has
left him with suns