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It wouldn't surprise me though given notch hasn't had a compelling reason to sell so far (no investors, lives a modest lifestyle, it's still minting money like crazy). This appears to be a "too good a deal to turn down" sale, so he probably called all the shots to make it stick.

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> lives a modest lifestyle Didn't he just buy /the/ most expensive apartment in Stockholm?

$3.9M or thereabouts. I suspect that it is threads like these that will make Markus more than happy to fade out of the spotlight.

Well, for a centimillionaire. Spending less than 2% of his then net worth (more like 0.2% now though) on his main property was relatively modest. No jets, cars, helicopters, $200m+ London homes.. he seems to spend more time noodling with Dart than spending his money ;-)

Not important, but you probably mean "hectomillionaire" - a centimillionaire would be someone worth $10,000.

I would accept 'centillionaire', because 'centillion' strikes me as a decent way to say one hundred million. A centurion is not 1/100th of an urion.

Apparently 'centillionaire' is already taken http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centillion

"One centillion is a number, which is equal to either 10^303 or 10^600, depending on the system used."

No, he meant centimillionaire / centi-millionaire. It's a common term referring to a nine figure net worth.

Centi can designate 100 of something or one-hundredth of something.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/centi-

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/centimillionaire

http://www.forbes.com/sites/calebmelby/2012/11/12/breaking-d...

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