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Bono is a hard-core businessman, not an artist. This is a guy who raised to fame on giving fundraising concerts to help poor children in Africa, and himself do
by joering2 12y ago
Bono is a hard-core businessman, not an artist.
This is a guy who raised to fame on giving fundraising concerts to help poor children in Africa, and himself donated ZERO dollars out of 1.7 billion he made on Facebook stock.
God only knows what deals has been made behind scenes U2 vs Apple.
Edit: I stand corrected: first and foremost, he's a hard-core businessman, THEN an artist.
- xzlzx 12y agoI detest U2 in basically every way, but to say he's not an artist is quite shortsighted.
- glhaynes 12y agoI'd be OK with criticizing his capital gains if he were dead and they didn't seem to be distributed reasonably. At least until then, it seems pretty gross to criticize him on that basis. And to call a member of such an influential band "not an artist" just seems silly.
- pbreit 12y agoSorry, still clearly an artist first. Perhaps even philanthropist would be higher than "hardcore businessman". And Bono made way less than $1.7b on Facebook. Probably well less than $100m. Possibly less than $10m. Simple downvote.
- aaronbrethorst 12y agoSome math: http://fortune.com/2012/05/18/no-facebook-did-not-make-bono-worlds-richest-musician/ http://fortune.com/2012/05/18/no-facebook-did-not-make-bono-... So, again, at best Bono gets $43 million. Or, in other words, just more than Britney Spears will make for two years of judging The X Factor. Let alone Paul McCartney’s reported $1.04 billion net worth. Clearly Facebook has been good to Bono, but not nearly as good as is being portrayed…