💰 In 2015, Jeff Bezos personally offered $10 BILLION to buy Wish.

The meeting?
📍 A secret room at Amazon HQ
🧑‍⚖️ Lawyers wall to wall
✍️ NDAs flying
And Bezos himself pitched the deal.

Wish’s CEO, Piotr Szulczewski, was meeting his idol.

But he said NO.

Then came Alibaba…
Another $10 BILLION offer.

He said NO again.

His reason?

> “We can be bigger than Walmart.”

Fast-forward to today…

📉 Wish is down 99% from its all-time high.
That $10B? VANISHED.

Possibly the most expensive ‘no’ in Silicon Valley history.

Moral?
💡 Confidence is great — but don’t confuse it with delusion.
💡 Some doors only open once.
💡 Saying “no” to your idol? Brave. But sometimes, brutal.

Would you have taken the deal?

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