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Might not be. Might as well be strategy to discourage others from pursuing the same while Facebook works things out eventually.

- Hey Mike this is VP John Smith, until yesterday we were interested in investing round A of $10 million in your VR startup but unfortunately we heard today that Zuckerberg plans to be deep in it, therefore I regret to inform you we will be unable to go with the round. Sorry and we wish you good luck!



I think I have about 20 of those email responses at this point!




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