If I'm not mistaken, isn't Nathan Myhrvold the founder of Intellectual Ventures?

I used to drive by one of their offices on 132nd in Bellevue fairly often. Now that I've Googled it, I'm quite surprised to see what Intellectual Ventures engages in quite a lot of patent litigation. I thought he was a venture capitalist or something.

The last thing I remember from him was a series of elaborate cookbooks.