Fred's Fun Fact: Graffiti Artist At Facebook Headquarters

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Fread Show is on Fred's Fun Fact Fred's Fun.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Look nice. I guess it was it last week of
the week before we did a money related fact about
the dude the third founder of Apple, Yes, who sold
out for eight hundred bucks correct, and it was worth
like three hundred million, like literally with a bee, like
an insane number. I got a nicer story though, to
start this weekend. You ready? So? In two thousand and five,
a graffiti artist named David Coe cho E was offered

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sixty thousand dollars to paint murals at the Facebook headquarters.
He said, no, give it to me in stock. I
want stock. That stock today is worth two hundred million dollars. Ooh,
smart man, that is a smart guy. Sixty grand today.
There's a lesson there. Sixty grand today or two hundred

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million in twenty years. What would you take now? Of
course you could never know at the time that it
would be worth that, but like, I think that's a
gamble worth taking.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
There's also I think that Magic Johnson is the same story.
He wanted. They like, we could give you stock in
whatever converse, or or you just take the money for
your shoe. He took the money and then that stock
was worth like matching. Yeah, a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
He sold out of the Lakers too soon too, Yeah yeah, yeah,
I mean, I know he's he's a great businessman. He's
made a lot of money in like movie theaters and
other kind of stuff. But yeah, yeah, Spartan, I think
I think one of those is enough for me to
not sleep well at night. But you're telling me two
chances and hundreds of millions. Okay, I more Fred Show

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