Bono Is One Of The Richest Musicians In The Known Universe
And you can curse at the "like" button for that.
One of my biggest regrets in life, besides drinking an all-green protein shake for breakfast today (BARF! NEVER AGAIN!), is not getting a job as a janitor, muralist or glory hole attendant at Facebook during its earlier days. Because if I did, about this time tomorrow I'd be writing Dlisted posts from my private island while clones of Prince Hot Ginge feed me a fresh batch of Zingers I had flown in on my invisible Wonder Woman plane flown by Lynda Carter herself. As you know by now, Facebook went public today and not only is this going to make Mark Zuckerberg a boy billionaire 20 times over, but it might make Bono richer than Paul McCartney.
HuffPo says that in 2009, Bono's company Elevation Partners invested $90 million in Facebook, which earned them 2.3 percent of the company. With Facebook's IPO expected to hit $100 billion, Elevation Partners' shares could be worth up to $1.5 billion. The not-at-all reliable Celebrity Net Worth says Bono's solid gold money vault is filled with around $900 million. Depending on how much of Elevation's earnings belongs personally to Bono, he could be richer than Paul McCartney by the end of the day. Paul McCartney is currently worth around $1.05 billion.
Bono is obviously going to use a lot of that money to fund his various charitable causes, or at least he's going to use a lot of that money to throw a charity benefit where U2 will play for a $5 million fee and A-listers will drink $20-a-sip champagne. But Bono should also use that money to build a portable moat around him, because that booming hopping sound you hear is Heather Mills coming to snatch his ass!
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a boy tries hard to be a man
his father takes him by his hand
if he stops to think
he starts to cry
oh, why
if you walk away walk away
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I'll always love those early songs. the EPs and the singles and the blue vinyl 12 inches. who and what he is now, i don't know. they were like this big eyed youth in a bullet filled industrial world - almost a gangster rock/punk thing, from the perspective of the child under 10.
that's how it seemed to me.
so U2's like an old friend, i will love them for what they have meant to me in the past and forgive them for how twisted they might be in the present, because we kind of grew up together.
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I think he gives off an insincere and super self righteous Mel Gibson holier than thou vibe. Like... He thinks he's smarter than any other human & he'd clap at the armaggedon.
I used to like his music, but now I can't. When forced to listen, I make up my own blasphemous lyrics...
I.e.... Sundae, hot fudge sundae instead of the bloody kind.
(ugh with the triple post... Sorry)
RandéS, the Edge really? Hmmm, props to these guys then for not squandering their dough! Got their heads screwed on right. Bono is just the flashier one, eh? Figures, he's the frontman... haha ;p
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Submitted by WithinReason... on Fri, 05/18/2012 - 6:56pm.
Bono seems like Gene Simmons to me. By far the most savvy of all his band mates! I like U2 and also his business sense.
The Edge also has been trying to develop a massive swath of land in Malibu for a few years. He keeps running into opposition from the locals and Coastal Commission, but has the money to face them all down. I think the beachfront land alone was worth over $100m.
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Bono seems like Gene Simmons to me. By far the most savvy of all his band mates! I like U2 and also his business sense. Kinda meh on his charity work after he said they were just in the "raising awareness" business but that's another matter...
Good for him on making $$$!
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I love this man and do not begrudge him for having tons of money. His band has given me so much happiness with their albums and live performances...my world would have been an emptier place without them. Some of my favorite Facebook pals are people I met on a U2 fan site.
Haters gotta hate, I suppose, and Bono is far from perfect. But I believe he has done a lot of good in the world, and plenty of good in my world.
'glory hole attendant at Facebook'
lol. google's currently hiring bidet operators.
i'm glad i don't use facebook. mark zuckerberg's creepy and bono's a tax dodger.
I've never liked Bono. I think he's a pretentious asshole and I've never quite bought his charitable routine. Not sure why but I always felt like he wanted people to think he was such a humanitarian but was really just hosing for attention. One thing I know for certain is despite his efforts to be green, he's full of shit because he travels around by private jet.
I have a friend who was a bartender in London in the early 80s and she knew him slightly. This was right before U2 hit it big and she said he was really awkward and strange.
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I agree... I think he gives off an insincere and super self righteous Mel Gibson holier than thou vibe. Like... He thinks he's smarter than any other human & he'd clap at the armaggedon.
I used to like his music, but now I can't. When forced to listen, I make up my own blasphemous lyrics...
I.e.... Sundae, hot fudge sundae instead of the bloody kind.
Double post
But how much does Bono really donate to charities? I always thought he just guilted other celebrities into giving away their money while paying the pious routine.
God I hate that sanctimonious asshole. He completely ruined U2 for me.
I did not know he was a major investor in Facebook. That explains why my favourite group 'I fucking hate Bono and his fucking face' got shut down
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Evilshoe...it boils my blood! Yes, that co-founder left this country to do exactly that, to evade taxes. These people gain from American culture then once they make their billions shit on it by running off. In the end of the day the laws need to change. But with so many on capital hill making big bucks down the pipe line these fuckers will keep getting away without paying the rightful share.
Submitted by kylimayrow on Fri, 05/18/2012 - 4:15pm.
Exactly. And the other fucktard co-founder who asked for the US's help to protect him from harm in his home country, then he renounces his citizenship here to avoid taxes and saves like 65 million? Hell no. I don't buy his bullshit story. I know good, hard working people who have waited years to come here to be a citizen (even passing up sneaking in) and this fucker just deletes what was given him saying he's a global citizen? Get the fuck out and stay out.
Bono is up there with Sean Penn for me.
I think it is disgusting that corporate laws will allow Mark Z. to skip on taxes...so basically he gives nothing in return to those (the people) who made this possible. I hope facebook implodes with its self importance as did Myspace. To even buy into or get a good deal on these stocks you would have to at least meet the criteria of earning $200,000 a year. So it is for the rich to get richer... and I agree with you cocoebert, Bono is a greedy fuck. I don't care if he tosses some to charity, the fact that he took his money out of his country (Ireland) to evade taxes makes him a fat cat like the rest of them. (No hate on real fat cats) but he can't even be bothered to help his country out is fucked up.
Submitted by cocoebert on Fri, 05/18/2012 - 12:08pm.
But bitch still moves his money out of Ireland in order to evade taxes. Fuck him and fuck this "we can cure the world of all its ills through charity" mentality. No, we'd be better served through a more equitable system all around so we wouldn't have to rely on the ego-stroking practices of celebrity money.
Stock Broker, I saw that, isn't it in Brazil now? I saw an article about it. You pay to ensure your friends see it, and it's a per post fee. People there interviewed couldn't see the point of paying to have your friends see your every move.
Just take an acid bath you utter cunt bono!
With Fb or any other site...if it seems "free" then you are the product being sold.
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Bono is a total schmoe...game over.
Bono is giving the bird. I take everything he says with a grain of salt. Not even good salt. The bad shit with fillers so that it flows well.
Pardon me, but I still don't really see the difference between Facefuck and MySpace. Both are places to post every detail about your life (Hey, I just ate a ham and swiss sandwich), post pictures, put up your likes/dislikes, message each other, so WTF is so special about Facefuck? Nothing, that I can see, other than Zuckerscum, and that alone would be the very reason for me to prefer MySpace to FB, if I were into that shit. (OMG! It is HOT out, and a cute dude just walked by my desk! Oh, and I am wearing a cute khaki skirt today, and really cute shoes, and my baby just threw up, and I eat my placenta, and here are pictures).
When a wee-fella' wears black instead of green, it means one-thing only, HE's a Vamprachaun!!
Stocky, I am not surprised. FB does all kinds of things, from owning rights to the pics you post to tracking you and sending you ads. I still love it, but I'm not blind to the fact that money talks either. No such thing as a free lunch, so to speak.
The problem that is never addressed in the discourses is the number of variables that lead to conflicts and war in various regions. Instead of acknowledging that x, y, z and so on caused something in X country and enacting policies so that they don't repeat themselves, celebrities and politicians in general resolve to throw money to the situation because they think it will just go away.
The Heckler ~ yea, GM pulled out.
Think about it. FB is for 13 yr old girls. Why were they wasting ad $ on them? Dumb.
FB .Friendster. Napster. AOL. Earthlink. My Space.
The info highway is littered with over-hyped fads.
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Submitted by Stock Broker on Fri, 05/18/2012 - 2:22pm.
For Face Book Dlisters:
FB is going to start testing the concept of charging users a fee when you send a message.
They know that selling ads isn't a long term sustainable solution to generate sales, given the DISMAL click-thru rates they have.
Facebook = dumbing down of America.
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HA and HA! Aren't some of the biggest advertisers pulling out too? I think GM (maybe another car company, can't recall) is pulling their multi-million $ ad campaign from Fartbook because advertising on the site didn't increase sales of cars. Go figure! I'm sure more will follow when they take a good, hard look at their sales and the lack of impact directly relating to FB.
For Face Book Dlisters:
FB is going to start testing the concept of charging users a fee when you send a message.
They know that selling ads isn't a long term sustainable solution to generate sales, given the DISMAL click-thru rates they have.
Facebook = dumbing down of America.
(by end of the summer, FB stock will be trading at around $20. My prediction)
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Submitted by Two Drink Min on Fri, 05/18/2012 - 12:15pm.
One day something else will come along and fb will be old news. It's just a matter of when.
How many of us are farting around on myspace anymore?
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Bingo... I hate how people are saying it CAN'T happen because it learned from the pitfalls of Myspace. It's still a fad and a trend, and fads and trends die out.I'm sorry, but I don't see Facebook having the staying power of a search engine like yahoo and google. There will be something else to take it's place, also with all the privacy issues it has, different formats constantly being used and pushed on people, constant bugs, and all that. The very friend who introduced me to facebook, I wanna say maybe 2 years ago, no longer uses it because it no longer interests him.
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Submitted by Stock Broker on Fri, 05/18/2012 - 2:08pm.
....and by the way, Facebook IPO already is declining faster than Blohan's career.
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Yep! That was what I was saying earlier. Not exactly the day all these smug, SOB's had planned!
@Stock Broker
Really? I expected the shares would finish on a high. Excuse me while I stitch my sides back together: I just split them laughing.
....and by the way, Facebook IPO already is declining faster than Blohan's career.
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He may be one of the riches musicians, but he's the BIGGEST JERK in the universe.
Tax dodger, hyprocrite, egomaniac: sums it up.
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Put the finger away, douche. You are no longer one of the 99%.
Also for those of you who can access this UK site this is priceless.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/star-stories/episode-guide/series-3/e...
Well played Bono, well played! *claps-claps*
I hear the Winklevoss twins are getting about 150 Mill. :O
Ugh MK, those protein shakes are VILE! hahaha ;D
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I can't believe you didn't comment on Bono's gentlemanly and casual middle finger. That is the way to tell the world to fuck off.
Marina Hyde in The Guardian can always be relied on to shine a light in the dusty corners of the whole shitshow.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2010/sep/23/bono-on...
Pompous, hypocritical, phony shitbag.
No one cares about Facebook's IPO today. I hope these bitches lose everything. Facebook will be gone in 5 years because it will age like everything else on the innernet.
I hate those fucking eye things he wears on his head. Fucking HATE. THEM.
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"i don't care how more money gets to charity as long as it gets there"
Well, in cases where people donate to celebrity charities the money never "gets there" at all.
Celebrity charities are poorly managed, with countless people on the payroll, so money never gets to the people who need it; and all that happens is another sparkle appears on Bono/Jolie's halo.
If you are going to donate then donate to Doctors without borders or Red Cross - those are charities that have been set up NOT for the purpose of inflating somebody's bloated ego but to get to grips with the ground work.
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I'm gonna join Friendster.
Submitted by Evil_Cupcake on Fri, 05/18/2012 - 12:32pm.
those that are the "faces" of charity, are always the ones who do the least. It is the people, out in the trenches in war torn, impoverished countries, or countries ravaged by natural disasters, that are the ones we should be admiring, not some unwashed, tax evading, hypocrite.
THIS.
The only awareness that is ever raised when Angelina flies first class in a private jet to Sudan to take pouty pictures in perfectly done Dior makeup is for whichever new movie she is out promoting.
my firm represents RED, IDK any insider info tho, LOL
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I bet Bono actually had Lasik years ago.
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When is Dlisted's IPO happening that's all I want to know. I have about 8p in a jar next to me; that should cover half of all the shares.