SAN FRANCISCO — The graffiti artist who took Facebook stock instead of cash for painting the walls of the social network’s first headquarters made a smart bet. The shares owned by the artist, David Choe, are expected to be worth upward of $200 million when Facebook stock trades publicly later this year.
The social network company announced its $5 billion public offering Wednesday afternoon, which is expected to value the whole company at $75 billion to $100 billion. Ultimately, that offering will mint a lot of billionaires and millionaires.
That’s not too bad considering that Choe thought the concept of Facebook was “ridiculous and pointless” at first. Lucky bastard, this guy.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/technology/for-founders-to-decorators-facebook-riches.html?_r=4&ref=global-home&pagewanted=all