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Scott McNealy: sold Sun to Oracle for $7bn

[Yes, 20 years later from the point in time I'm talking about.]

Steve Case: sold AOL to Time Warner for $164bn

[$3 billion isn't cool. You know what's cool? $164 billion is cool.]

Ev Williams: sold Blogger to Google for an undisclosed sum

[Obviously I was referring to Twitter.]

John Sidgmore: sold UUNet to MFS Communications for $2bn

[Brainfart -- I meant John Morgridge.]

Ross Perot: sold EDS to General Motors for $2.5bn (in 1984 dollars!)

[Yeah, but that's when $2.5 billion was real money.]




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