David Choe’s Facebook Office Murals Now Worth $200 Million

In 2005, artist David Choe painted graffiti-style murals inside and around Facebook’s first headquarters in Palo Alto, California, though he considered the idea of Facebook “ridiculous and pointless.” They offered to pay him his couple of thousand dollars in shares instead of cash. He said, sure. Now, those shares are worth $200,000,000 now that the company has gone public. Take that, Damien Hirst.

According to Choe, “they cut the walls out of all my paintings and sent them to all the Facebook offices around the world.” He also doodled on Zuckerberg’s laptop. Not a bad payday, huh?

Some video:

by Marina Galperina on February 2, 2012 at 11:00 am

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HxG

that shit cray.

February 2nd, 2012 at 11:13 am
@MulletFarm

That's "Thumbs Up" Choe from VICE… somewhere a private jet headed to the MGM Macao is gassing up.

February 2nd, 2012 at 3:05 pm