Actually, their "winning" is a lot more than $65M. They took $20M in cash, and the rest in facebook stock, which has increased from the 15B valuation to anything from 50B to 70B now on the private secondary markets.
This reminds me of a story I read about Grant Achatz, the great chef of Alinea. When he started out of cooking school, he sent a resume every week to Thomas Keller at the French Laundry, until Thomas Keller finally called him in and interview him. Persistence does payoff