He had nailed the pitch, explaining to Systrom that he was offering a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be on the ground floor of something that would be truly huge. Facebook was going to open up to high school students next, and eventually to the whole world. The company was going to raise more money from venture capitalists and might one day be bigger than Yahoo! or Intel or Hewlett-Packard. And then, when the restaurant ran Zuckerberg’s credit card, it didn’t go through.
