15 years later and he's still trying to spin his terrible negotiating into a pos...

jstanderfer · on Nov 12, 2011

This isn't completely accurate is Be Inc. did successfully IPO in 1999 and won a lawsuit against Microsoft.

_delirium · on Nov 12, 2011

Yeah, even the investors who didn't cash out at the IPO did eventually end up with $35 million for the company: $11 million from the 2001 asset sale to Palm, and $24 million from the 2002 settlement with Microsoft.