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He is the ultimate "ideas guy". I believe his net worth is somewhere near $800 million. His value after Napster was his connections to venture capital compani
by rick888 15y ago
He is the ultimate "ideas guy". I believe his net worth is somewhere near $800 million. His value after Napster was his connections to venture capital companies.
Even in high school, he got in trouble for "hacking", which was nothing more than being a script kiddie (he used pre-built exploits to attack military and other computers).
- redthrowaway 15y ago>I believe his net worth is somewhere near $800 million. With 7% of facebook, his net worth is quite a bit higher. Given a facebook valuation creeping up on $100B, his net worth is probably in the $4-7B range.
- mkopinsky 15y agoDoes he still own 7%, or has he been diluted?
- redthrowaway 15y agoI'm sure it's been diluted, but he would have also had options. That's why I gave such a broad guesstimate. i also recall reading an interview with him a while back where they asked, "now that you're a billionaire, is a billion dollars cool?" or some such. I'd be very surprised if he wasn't worth at least a couple billion.
- blake8086 15y agoIsn't that really valuable? In fact, isn't it worth $800 million+ in this case?