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November 02, 2006
TomTom Founders Take Home €455M
A year and a half after its IPO, a couple of TomTom execs and some founders -- the ones that created a billion euro company without the aid of venture capitalists -- cashed in some shares to the tune of €455M this week.
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It will be interesting to see if their new wealth makes its way into the startup economy, following in the footsteps of entrepreneurial angel investors like the Samwer brothers, the SAP co-founders, early employees and early investors in Skype, Martin Varsavsky, and Spreadshirt's Lukasz Gadowski, to name a few.
Posted on November 2, 2006 10:29 AM | Posted to entrepreneurship | Permalink
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