Bono to become richest musician in the WORLD today in Facebook IPO - €2bn!!!!

darkman2

Today in roughly 12 hours when Facebook is floated Bono becomes master of the universe!


Thoughts, congratulations?

:pac:

ihateusernames

darkman2 wrote: »

Today in roughly 12 hours when Facebook is floated Bono becomes master of the universe!

Wonder will we see a significant portion offset against African Debt/Famine Relief.

If he does then yes, yes he deserves to be master of the universe.............though i have my doubts

patwicklow

Any one know what he invested at the start? anyway fair play to him nice if ye can get it.

darkman2

patwicklow wrote: »

Any one know what he invested at the start? anyway fair play to him nice if ye can get it.

€90m I think.

Lapin

Will this make him Ireland's wealthiest person ?

MrStuffins

In fairness, when speaking about "richest musicians" they should only include money made from music.

I mean, if Bill Gates releases a charity single that would technically make HIM the world's richest musician!

eug87

This was Bono's reaction about Facebook's valuation.:P

Lapin

MrStuffins wrote: »

In fairness, when speaking about "richest musicians" they should only include money made from music.

I mean, if Bill Gates releases a charity single that would technically make HIM the world's richest musician!

Good point - Ryanair's Micheal O' Leary is regarded in some surveys as Ireland's richest sportperson because of his connections with horseracing.

MrStuffins

Lapin wrote: »

Good point - Ryanair's Micheal O' Leary is regarded in some surveys as Ireland's richest sportperson because of his connections with horseracing.

Lapin

^^^^^^^^

rubberdiddies

Lapin wrote: »

^^^^^^^^

Bono is a shareholder amongst many others in that company and doesn't own it outright. For all we know his shareholding could be 5%. There's a wiki page on it but I can't link to it on my phone.

And contrary to popular myth if he takes a dividend from that company he will pay tax on it here. It's U2's royalties as a company that have moved its tax base to holland not Bono himself. Any income Bono earns tax is still paid in Ireland as he is a resident here.

Anyway I don't begrudge and I would have confidence in him doing a lot of good with any money he earns.

Maybe I like to presume the good in people too much sometimes!

Lapin

rubberdiddies wrote: »

Bono is a shareholder amongst many others in that company and doesn't own it outright. For all we know his shareholding could be 5%. There's a wiki page on it but I can't link to it on my phone.

And contrary to popular myth if he takes a dividend from that company he will pay tax on it here. It's U2's royalties as a company that have moved its tax base to holland not Bono himself. Any income Bono earns tax is still paid in Ireland as he is a resident here.

Anyway I don't begrudge and I would have confidence in him doing a lot of good with any money he earns.

Maybe I like to presume the good in people too much sometimes!

I agree with everything you said, I was just questioning the Simpsons cartoon in response to (a reasonable) point I made to someone else.

As you mention it, Bono's shareholding was actually 2.3%.

As I said in another thread, "Fair F***s to him".

I don't begrudge him at all, and I'm baffled as to where I gave the impression I did here.

rubberdiddies

Lapin wrote: »

rubberdiddies wrote: »

Bono is a shareholder amongst many others in that company and doesn't own it outright. For all we know his shareholding could be 5%. There's a wiki page on it but I can't link to it on my phone.

And contrary to popular myth if he takes a dividend from that company he will pay tax on it here. It's U2's royalties as a company that have moved its tax base to holland not Bono himself. Any income Bono earns tax is still paid in Ireland as he is a resident here.

Anyway I don't begrudge and I would have confidence in him doing a lot of good with any money he earns.

Maybe I like to presume the good in people too much sometimes!

I agree with everything you said, I was just questioning the Simpsons cartoon in response to (a reasonable) point I made to someone else.

As you mention it, Bono's shareholding was actually 2.3%.

As I said in another thread, "Fair F***s to him".

I don't begrudge him at all, and I'm baffled as to where I gave the impression I did here.

Apologies Lapin. I actually meant to start a fresh reply and not quote your post. Fat fingers and all!

ihateusernames

MrStuffins wrote: »

In fairness, when speaking about "richest musicians" they should only include money made from music.

I mean, if Bill Gates releases a charity single that would technically make HIM the world's richest musician!

I do wish he would do that ................ just to piss bono off.

John Mason

Lapin wrote: »

I agree with everything you said, I was just questioning the Simpsons cartoon in response to (a reasonable) point I made to someone else.

Thats not a Simpsons cartoon :eek::eek:

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Nothing to do with Dublin.