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If you assume Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan have a love story for the ages, you might want to hold off on smashing that love button on their anniversary post. Sure, they seem happy now, but according to author David Kirkpatrick, who detailed the origins of Zuckerberg’s social network in his book The Facebook Effect, Chan played it extremely cool in the beginning.
Speaking with The New York Times, Kirkpatrick said that Chan was never a fangirl of Zuckerberg, as many on the Harvard campus came to be of the coding whiz. And instead of following him off campus to build the site, Chan stayed in school and charted her own path, which eventually led to a job offer that took her away from Silicon Valley and, by extension, Zuckerberg. Since they were 3,000 miles apart, they broke up, during which time “Zuckerberg saw other women, including an undergraduate from the University of California, Berkeley.”
Of course, they eventually got back together, but it wasn’t without some drama. In fact, as a source close to Chan told the outlet, “She negotiated the terms of their getting back together, including the possibility of marriage,” which Zuckerberg apparently wasn’t into at the time. Clearly, Chan changed his mind.
Written by: Nicki
