I’m sure painters will now be clamoring to paint the walls of startups for stock. It’s a pretty good proposition, considering that the worst case scenario is losing out on a few thousand dollars that would have been paid in cash and the upside is hundreds of millions of dollars…

The graffiti artist who took Facebook stock instead of cash for painting the walls of the social network’s first headquarters made a smart bet. The shares owned by the artist, David Choe, are expected to be worth upward of $200 million when Facebook stock trades publicly later this year.