Posted by : Challa Pradyumna Friday, April 15, 2011

A New York Business man Paul ceglia claims that he owns half of Facebook as he has lent Zuckerberg 1,384.08€ towards the development of the site which now costs 44.98€ billion.This could lead 2 results for the man one an overnight billionaire or an straight to jail for producing fake documents. any way here are the snippets of mail leaked over the media. In short Mark said Fu*k you I own the site.
                   subject line “Urgent! Let’s Talk” on November 22, 2003.

Harvard that are planning to launch a site very similar to ours. If we don’t make a move soon, I think we will lose the advantage we would have if we release before them. I’ve stalled them for the time being and with a break if you could send another 692.04€ for the facebook [sic] project it would allow me to pay my roommate or Jeff to help integrate the search code and get the site live before them. Please give me a call so that we can talk more about this

After two days:

Sorry it’s taken me a few days to respond, [sic] Now that the sites [sic] live I feel I must take creative control and I just can not risk injuring my sites [sic] reputation by cheapening it with your idea of selling college junk, nor do I wish to spend my time shipping out coffee mugs to rich alumni. The site is cool as it is and I don’t care about making any money on it right now, I just want to see if people will use it. If I had the rest of the money I was owed by you for all that extra work I did I wouldn’t even need to make money at all on this site. That is money I am entitled to and is rightfully mine.

Celiga reply

Mark, all I can think is your parents have handed you everything your entire life and after all this time and energy and MONEY that you think in your head that an Ok way to act is to just say- oh I’ve changed my mind I don’t think it’s cool to make money and that that should be that. Then you have the nerve to suggest that I should pay you more money if I get you right, so that you dont [sic] have to try to make money on the site we’ve built?? It’s one thing to say you don’t want to sell coffee mugs but I don’t see why since the margins are excellent and with minimal effort we could generate some decent revenue for us while keeping the site free to students. It’s one thing to say “I’d like to discuss with you other ways we could produce revenue for the site, like advertising, we could sell ads locally I am sure and to places that already sell alumni stuff (but we will be losing the margins) angel investors are just con men and until we have some decent revenue we aren’t going to get a dime from them without giving up the whole thing and anyway at this point it’s just a freaking harvard [sic] thing. I need to be able to get on the actual site and see where we can place some ads and we need to get some bike couriers to go around promoting the site so we can get some people using it FIRST! But we need to get some advertising on the site right away if you like that route better so alumni are used to seeing some ads from the beginning.


Marks response :


Paul, I have become too busy to deal with the site and no one wants to pay for it, so I am thinking of just taking the server down. My parents have a fund that I can tap into for my college expenses and I would just like to give you your two thousand dollars back and call it even on the rest of the money you owe me for the extra work. At this point I won’t even really be able to work on the facebook until Summer.


Celiga reply:


You’ve got some nerve talking about me owing you with the CRIMINAL stunts you’ve pulled [sic] Reasonable people go to court to resolve their differences they don’t go stealing things dude, you stole code, not once, not twice but THREE TIMES! Do you have any idea the damage you’ve done??? Grow up, take a fucking ethics class, choke yourself with that silver spoon of yours.


Final mail of mark:


Paul,
I am guessing that you don’t want to talk to me but I wanted to say happy birthday and that I hope to resolve our differences. I see that what I did was wrong and I am really sorry that I behaved as I did. Please give me your address and I will mail you back the 1,384.08€ for your trouble, more if it will repair our business relationship.
Another summer is here and I still don’t have any time to build our site, I understand that I promised I would, but other things have come up and I am out in California working during break. I just don’t want the obligation of having to answer to you for not following through and I won’t be able to.
Best,
Mark

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