San Jose, California

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in his opening remarks during the townhall interaction with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today revealed something that was limited to only his private talks.

Zuckerberg revealed that when Facebook was not doing well, Apple inc founder and his mentor Steve Job’s advise to him to visit a temple in India that he too had visited in troubled times.

Zuckerberg said:

“India is a personally very important to the history of our company here. This is the story I haven’t told publicly and very few people know but early on in our history when before things were really going well and we hit a tough patch and lot of people wanted to buy facebook I though we should sell a company, I went and I saw one of my mentors Steve Jobs and he told me that in order to reconnect to what I believed as the mission of the company, I should visit this temple that he had gone to in India early on in his evolution of thinking about what he wanted apple in his vision of the future to be and so when I traveled for almost a month and seeing the people, seeing how people connected and having an opportunity to feel how much better the world could be if I won’t had stronger ability to connect reinforced for me the importance of what we were doing. And that is something that I always remember over the last 10 years when we built Facebook.”

Zuckerberg received applause from Prime Minister Narendra Modi in response.

– DeshGujarat