Ali: A friend turned $50K in 2008 Facebook stock into $8 million
Suleman "Suli" Ali · Behind The Scenes of Selling My Company For Millions | Suli Ali (#410) · Jan 24, 2023 · at 44:29
Entrepreneur Suli Ali describes referring a private secondary Facebook stock allocation to a friend during the 2008 crash.
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“Somebody else came to me and was like, hey I've got Facebook stock to sell to, and so I hooked up a friend of mine with that Facebook stock, and he bought 50 K worth of stock, And that 50 K ended up being worth, like, eight million dollars for him, which is kind of amazing.”
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