Did David Choe sell his stock?

Although Choe sold some of the stock a while ago, he said, “I just sold a couple … to just secure that I would have something out of this in case anything changed.” Choe still has an estimated couple hundred million dollars after the exchange. “Don’t feel sorry for me,” he told Walters.

Why is David Choe worth so much?

However, Choe’s fame and fortune came in 2005, when his work caught the eye of Sean Parker, formerly of Napster, then president of the soon-to-be monolithic social media website Facebook. Parker asked Choe to paint some sexually explicit murals in the original Silicon Valley Facebook offices.

How much stock did David Choe get?

David was offered $60,000 (₹ 44 lakhs) or stocks of Facebook. David hated websites like Friendster and MySpace – social websites which were popular back in those days. He disliked Facebook too and preferred to take the $60k in cash. Sean Parker, the first president of Facebook, convinced him to take the shares instead.

Who is the richest graffiti artist?

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