Its not often that we get to talk about an artist getting their dues, so I thought I would write a quick blog about graffiti artist David Choe and how he lucked out painting that now infamous mural at Facebook HQ.

As an artist in any field you never really know which is the project that is going to break you, or turn out to be a way bigger deal than you first thought, and I'm sure that when Choe agreed to take stock in Facebook as payment for the mural, he had no idea that when Facebook goes public and floats on the stock exchange later this year, he will be worth an estimated $200 million. 

This all happened back in 2005 when Choe was asked to create artwork for Facebook's former headquarters in Palo Alto by Sean Parker, the companies founding president. At the time he agreed to be paid in stock despite thinking that facebook was "ridiculous".

- The original mural 

A couple of years later he was invited back by CEO Mark Zuckerburg to create more.

Imagine that, a job where they can't afford to pay you in $ but have a different approach to sharing the wealth, and it pays out.... I'm sure it will make you think twice about turning down that certain project in the future right!?!

So a huge congratulations to David, I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when he found this out!