If I was 19 yo I'm not so sure I wouldn't give up 50% of a company for $1k. Remember, at age 19, you haven't actually created anything of value. This $1k seems like a free computer at the time. And in the off chance this company does well, 50% of $1B is $500M. I'm happy to just have my $500M. Or at least I would be at the time I'm hypothesizing about this company.

Of course, Mark wouldn't take that deal now if he started a new company. But I bet you can still find a relatively bright student somewhere who would.

There are plenty of students from well-off families - that doesn't mean that they personally have access to a lot of cash to spend on whatever they want.

Regardless, I wasn't trying to give an actual accounting of Zuckerberg's thought process. It was more of an attempt at an easy joke about the proclivities of the average 19 year-old college student.