Graffiti Artist’s Facebook Stock Now Worth Half a Billion Dollars

Sean Parker, Facebook’s president, hired graffiti artist David Choe to paint Facebook’s offices in 2005. At the time, Choe opted to receive Facebook stock in lieu of $60,000 for the paint job.

With Facebook’s coming initial public offering, Choe says the stock he received for painting the offices could now be worth $500,000 million. However, Choe says he does not own all of the original stock he received becuase he sold some of the stock prior to the IPO.

See Nick Bilton, Facebook Graffiti Artist Could be Worth $500 Million, The New York Times, Feb. 7, 2012.

Special thanks to David S. Luber (Attorney at law, Florida Probate Attorney Wills and Estates Law Firm) for bringing this article to my attention.