Nathan Myhrvold
Nathan Myhrvold
Nathan Paul Myhrvold, formerly Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft, is co-founder of Intellectual Ventures and the principal author of Modernist Cuisine. Myhrvold was listed as co-inventor on 17 patents at Microsoft and has since co-sponsored applications for over 500 other patents for which his corporation is funding the patent monetization effort...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth3 August 1959
CountryUnited States of America
next steps patents
It's very hard for individual inventors to get paid. For the same reason that private equity is valuable - broadly, that's a good thing - in the case of patents, many that own them aren't in a good position to take the next step.
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Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!
patents investing making-money
Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.
giving people patents
In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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The task of growing is finding these people. A lot of companies are (turning away) from the notion that basic research can be a good investment. Some of the best and brightest are being turned out by their companies,
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Rick Rashid is one of the world's great research leaders. He built Microsoft Research from the ground up to its current status as one of the top computer science research laboratories. Microsoft Research couldn't be in better hands.
bill culture determines gates
The personality of Bill Gates determines the culture of Microsoft.
focusing theory worked
Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.
We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
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Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.
create helluva invention rate
If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things.
I never was a popular kid in class.
people
If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.