Some millionaires reach seven figures through hustling and penny pinching. Others just get lucky.
Graffiti artist David Choe knows the second scenario well.
As featured on a recent episode of CNBC's "The Filthy Rich Guide, " in the early 2000s, Choe's work caught the eye of Sean Parker, founder of Napster. In 2005, after Parker became president of then-fledgling start-up Facebook, he hired Choe to deck out its original headquarters in Silicon Valley with murals.
Though Choe despised social media's early iterations like MySpace and called Facebook a "ridiculous" idea, according to "The Filthy Rich Guide," he agreed to paint the building for a hefty sum: $60,000.
"My prices had been going higher and higher and I was like, 'Yeah, I mean, if you want me to paint the entire building, it's going to be 60, you know, 60 grand,'" Choe told Howard Stern.
Rub-it on July 28th, 2019 at 23:25 UTC »
‘In 2014 , Choe found $100 000 laying around in a shoebox in his room. ‘
vyruz32 on July 28th, 2019 at 22:34 UTC »
I remember Bourdain's Koreatown, LA episode with him. Dude defo had the set for life vibe, he even rolled to a local diner wearing a suit lmao.
Pubeshampoo on July 28th, 2019 at 21:24 UTC »
Smart man