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Facebook stock: 6 intriguing investors

Facebook stock will make many people suddenly wealthy when it begins trading this Friday. The company is expected to be valued somewhere around $100 billion, with stock expected to sell anywhere between $34 and $38 per share.  Here are six of the more unexpected people set to make a killing with initial public offering of Facebook stock, including a rock star, a graffiti artist, and pair of Mark Zuckerberg’s enemies.

2. David Choe (graffiti artist)

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This May 11, 2012, photo shows workers at the Facebook office in Menlo Park, Calif. Well-known graffiti artist David Choe is set make about $200 million off the Facebook IPO, after being paid in Facebook stock for his graffiti work at the company's first headquarters in 2005.

  • By Schuyler Velasco Correspondent

In 2005, graffiti artist David Choe was commissioned to spray paint the first Facebook, Inc. headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. Instead of taking a $60,000 cash payment, he opted for stock shares – a bet that stands to earn him between $200 million and $500 million once the IPO debuts. It was a risky decision at the time; Facebook was still a fledgling company, and this was back in the days when the social network was still limited to college students. But it paid off in a huge way.

Publicly, at least, Choe seems unfazed by his immense and newly minted wealth. "It's gonna sound horrible for me to say money is meaningless," he told Barbara Walters back in February, when the Facebook IPO was first announced. "But everyone's like: 'What are you gonna do now, now that you have all this money and freedom?' I'm like, 'I'm still gonna do whatever I want, except more people are just gonna bother me now.' "

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