The Kainchi Dham Ashram
in Nainital, Uttarakhand, India
Did
you know this is the sacred Indian temple Steve Jobs advised Mark Zuckerberg to
visit? And that's not it. Jobs said that he got his breakthrough idea of
creating Apple at this very place!
During
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent US visit just last week, the Facebook
founder and CEO revealed to us for the first time, a "rough patch" in
the early days of Facebook, when some people thought he should sell the company
off. So Zuckerberg went to see Jobs, who he described as one of his mentors.
Jobs, he said, told him to visit a temple in India that he had visited.
"...he
told me that in order to reconnect with what I believed as the mission of the
company I should visit this temple that he had gone to in India early on in his
evolution of thinking about what he wanted Apple and his vision of the future
to be," Zuckerberg said during the town hall.
"So
I went and I travelled for almost a month, and seeing the people, seeing how
people connected, and having the opportunity to feel how much better the world
could be if everyone had a stronger ability to connect reinforced for me the
importance of what we were doing and that is something I've always remembered
over the last 10 years as we've built Facebook."
Zuckerberg,
of course, didn't end up selling Facebook, and instead opted to take the
company public. Now, nearly 1.5 billion people use Facebook each month, and the
company currently has a market capitalization of over $254 billion.
"You
went to a temple with a lot of hope, and look how much you've achieved since
then," the Indian prime minister replied.
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