later, mark tried to buy it again, and there's a great scene at his house in palo alto where evan williams, or jasongoldman and twitter's former lawyer, in this guy a. mac, he, he went -- they went down to mark's house, and there was a secret meeting, and they had this discussion about him buying the company. but, again, they opted out. but he has this, it's interest, because while mark wanted to buy the company and he saw it as a threat to facebook and rightly so, it has been a threat to facebook, he also looked at it with just kind of a perplexed, you know, chaos. this was a company that he knew what was going on internally. he knew people were pushing each other out, he knew the site was going down. he knew the chaos between ev and jack and others and in one instance at a private dinner party at his house, mark said it's as if they drove a clown car to a gold mine and fell in. >> host: who else has tried to buy twitter? >> guest: who else has not tried to buy twitter is probably the better question. everyone has. you know, p. diddy showed up at the office one day, and -- the rapper -- he made in