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Re:John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google by esmi on Friday February 02, 2018 @12:12AM (#16288574)
It was reported that Standford made more than $300M off their shares and they get yearly royalties. I think they did ok on that deal.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2010/12/21/stanfords-ideas-gener...

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Re:John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google by puzzle on Friday February 02, 2018 @09:25AM (#16290678)
That makes it "only" the second most profitable Stanford patent ever. If they had only waited a little longer before cashing out...
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Re:John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google by narrator on Friday February 02, 2018 @02:10PM (#16293324)
Create more value than you capture.
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