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Comment by robotresearcher

12 hours ago

> did not do pretty well with NeXT

Having your company acquired by Apple, having them base vital parts of their business on your technology, and having your leadership merged into theirs could be seen as a successful outcome.

Did the NeXT investors make out OK?

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pjmlp  2 hours ago

Out of sheer luck, BeOS could have been the lucky one instead.

Those VCs had enough money for us to worry about them.

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