Dude earns $200mm by doing a paint job for Facebook

From the NYT:

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.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/technology/for-…

Fuck, I need some luck in my life.

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Hahaha, I don't even know. Good foresight on the artists part but damn...who knew?

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This sounds like some bullshit that a journalist who can't do basic math came up with. Do you guys really believe that facebook would have given away 0.2% of the company for a couple of grafiti paintings when they could have paid like 5K? It was probably more like 0.02% (at the most), which would be worth 15-20MM today, which is still mind blowing luck.

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manbearpigThis sounds like some bullshit that a journalist who can't do basic math came up with. Do you guys really believe that facebook would have given away 0.2% of the company for a couple of grafiti paintings when they could have paid like 5K? It was probably more like 0.02% (at the most), which would be worth 15-20MM today, which is still mind blowing luck.

shit... i could have done the outlines lol

Get it!
 

I mean I would probably take the stock. Unless he was abjectly poor at the time, getting paid $3k or whatever doesn't seem like a better deal than taking a risk. They said the guy was and is still independently wealthy, so taking a $3k bet on a risky asset probably wasn't a huge thing. And it obviously paid off.

Reality hits you hard, bro...
 

oh my god.... i am speechless.

what the fuck... seriously??

I think this guy got lucky because Mark Zuckerberg is such a nice guy, who handed out stocks to his employees, friends, or neighbors like a candy when he was starting Facebook.

Zuckerberg got sued and ripped from all of this formal friends who didn't do shit to help Facebook grow asking for millions in compensation. Just go watch the Social Network.

as they say, "It's about who you know, not what you know". Getting to know a guy like Zuckerberg is the luckiest thing that can happen to an individual.

 

It is ridiculous how some random dudes who happened to know Zuckerberg, but who were in no way involved in contributing to success or development of Facebook in any shape or form, got lucky or sued Zuckerberg, getting hundreds of millions for very ridiculous reasons...

 

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Placeat omnis impedit sed eius et et voluptates. Quis iusto inventore et recusandae.

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