Facebook IPO makes the musician Bono the world's richest

It can be defined as the musician - and investor - Bono Vox. In 2009, when he bought 2.3% of Facebook for 57 million euros (U.S. $ 90 million), certainly the lead singer of Irish band U2 did not think could become the world's richest musician. On Friday 18, when it happens the debut of the company founded by Marck Zuckerberg on Nasdaq - the stock market for technology companies - Bono will have an estimated fortune of about $ 1.5 billion. The figure exceeds the largest fortune in the music world until then, the ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, who has $ 900 million. In one of the largest initial public offerings (IPO, in English) of the United States, the company raised $ 16 billion on Thursday 17, priced at $ 38 for each paper. Now valued at $ 104 billion, Facebook has surpassed the size of Starbucks and Hewlett-Packard (HP) together. The value can only increase from this Friday, when shares begin trading by the code "FB". Some experts estimate that the increase could be up to 30%, taking every action to $ 50. Zuckerberg, who owns 503.6 million shares, now has a fortune of $ 19.1 billion after the IPO, according to Tech Radar blog, the website of The State of Sao Paulo. This makes it the 29th richest man in the world, surpassing the creators of Google, Sergey Brin and Page Lary, according to Bloomberg's ranking. If the experts' expectations are realized and the action is well appreciated - at twice the price, for example - the fortune of the young can reach $ 40 billion and approach of of billionaire Warren Buffett ($ 45 billion), which is third in the list of world's richest.