MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show August 20, 2016
They were made of plastic. And that was genius, and it absolutely changed the world. At least the world of glasses. By 1978, when the founder of that company was ready to sell that company that he had built, he found a very willing buyer in 3m and they bought his company in 1978 for 70 million at the time. In todays money, that would be about a quarter billion dollars. And this was a privately held firm. So basically all of the Purchase Price, as far as i can tell, went to him. Almost all the Purchase Price went to the one guy who had the idea and founded that company and made it happen. The f...