If you were asked to decorate the offices of a start up company and then given the choice of a one time cash payment or stock in the company, which would you choose? Graffiti artist David Choe decided on the latter choice when he was asked to paint Facebook's offices in Palo Alto, California back in 2005.
The New York Times reports that Choe made the stock option choice even though at the time he said that Facebook itself was "ridiculous and pointless." Nevertheless, he painted Facebook's offices and got in return stock options that amount to 0.1-0.25 percent of the company.
As most of you know, Facebook filed for its IPO earlier this week with analysts saying that the company's total worth could be up to $100 billion when it launches later this year. Even though Choe got a relatively small amount of stock options for his work on Facebook's offices, the total worth of his stock could be up to $200 million on paper when the IPO launches.
Of course, the man who stands to get the biggest payout for Facebook's IPO is its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. He owns the majority of Facebook's stock and his total worth could be over $75 billion when Facebook launches its public stock offering.
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