Did Zuckerberg sell 50% of facebook for $1,000?

:laughing: Wouldn’t this be a spectacular kick in the balls? I would HOWL if Zuckerberg had to cut a cheque for this fraudster for several billion dollars. Couldn’t happen to a nice guy. ha!

[quote=“Business Insider”]Remember Paul Ceglia?

He’s the fellow in upstate New York who sued Mark Zuckerberg last July, claiming that, way back in 2003, Zuckerberg had agreed to give him a 50% ownership in the project that became Facebook.

That claim seemed preposterous at the time, not least because Ceglia had waited 7 years to file it.

And there was also the fact that Ceglia was a convicted felon, having been charged with criminal fraud in connection with a wood-pellet company he operated.

In the weeks following the filing of the lawsuit, Ceglia produced what Ceglia said was a copy of the contract he and Mark Zuckerberg had signed covering two projects on which the two were working together–a Ceglia project called “StreetFax” and a Zuckerberg project called “the face book.” He also produced a canceled check for $1,000. He also explained why he waited 7 years to file the claim.
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But now Paul Ceglia has refiled his lawsuit. With a much larger law firm. And a lot more evidence.
And the new evidence is startling.

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Lastly, Ceglia contends that, in accordance with the original agreement, he was entitled to an equal share of Zuckerberg’s ownership in the corporation.
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And what do we think, having looked at this new batch of evidence?

We think that, if the emails and contract Ceglia produced are indeed fake, the fraud should be easy to expose (so easy, in fact, that we imagine DLA Piper’s investigators would already have exposed it–which leads us to question whether the emails and contract really are fake). We also think that, if the emails are fake, Paul Ceglia will be going to jail for a long, long time–a consequence that we assume was not lost on him. It’s one thing to allegedly defraud a few local customers by selling them wood pellets that you then don’t deliver. It’s another to try to defraud a major corporation out of hundreds of millions of dollars (or more).

Meanwhile, we think that if the Ceglia emails and contract are NOT demonstrably fake, Facebook will soon be paying Paul Ceglia several hundred million dollars–if not billions–in a settlement.
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In short, to us at least, the emails don’t read “fake.”[/quote]

If he did, serves him right.

Funny, I was just reading that article. Will be interesting to see how it pans out.

I’m going to have his baby.

I’m not surprised. He groped me. In an inappropriate manner.

So we were in Palo Alto visiting Facebook offices last week. Zuck sits in what they call “the aquarium”, which is basically a room in the middle of the floor made with glass walls on 3 sides. One of my Taiwanese staff saw him and said, “Oh… fat.” I think he’s about the right size for an American, but then again I had forgotten how fat Americans typically are.

They will likely settle this and move on.

Sure he didn’t say, in awe, “Oh… phat”?

He actually said 呵… 很肥

It’s all pretty stupid and sordid if you ask me. Young kid earns vastly excessive riches for creating just a fancy online chat forum. Greedy felon who only invested $1,000 of seed money comes back later seeking billions. Greedy law firm also wants in on the action. I wish somehow they could all lose, but that’s not possible. In any event, the lawyers will definitely win, as always. God bless litigation.

I’ll be curious to see how it pans out, too.

True, but back then no-one knew it would be so big. A deal’s a deal. He was willing to gamble $1000 on what might have become a total loss (assuming any of this is true, of course).

This “just a fancy online forum” has the potential to uproot Google’s online ad dominance as it exists today. He steered the boat on strategy and product decisions the whole way there. Whatever riches he gets is well deserved.

The guy from Futurama??

Whaaaaa??

bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-1 … rcent.html

some interesting alleged communication and interaction between the 2.