Late last month, a man sued Facebook claiming he owns 84 percent of the social networking giant.
Paul Ceglia says he entered into a contract with Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, for a 50 percent share, doing so for $1000 USD. In addition, Ceglia says the deal granted him 1 percent extra of the company for every day until the Web site was completed after January 2004.
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Originally posted by KillerBug: Two simple things to resolve this whole thing...
The original of the contract
A Bank statement, check, or other proof of the $1000 payment.
That sounds about right.
It also seems odd to me that Zuckerberg would agree to automatically splitting facebook 50% with someone for just $1000. The addition of 1% per day doesn't seem right to me either; a small delay could have easily meant facebook, 100% of it, belonged to Paul Ceglia.