If we have learned anything from this week’s IPO announcement, it’s that it’s good to bet on Facebook.
Since the company announced its decision to go public on Wednesday, Facebook employees and early investors must be bouncing off the walls over staggering reported earnings. (Mark Zuckerberg’s reported pull? $28.4 billion with a B.) But our favorite member of the Facebook IPO instant millionaire club is undoubtedly San Jose graffiti artist David Choe.
Expressing brilliant foresight, Choe reportedly opted for stock options instead of payment in 2005 for covering the walls of Facebook headquarters with spray-painted murals. (Check out the video below for baby 20-year-old Zuckerberg spray-painting stick figures.) According to his website, Choe has since been homeless, “wandering the earth, making good art and bad music.” The sum the art-school dropout stands to make come May: a cool $200 million.
via Huffington Post
February 3, 2012
