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My high-tech aversion caused me to make fun of the typical biotech enterprise: $100 million in cash from selling shares, one hundred Ph.D.'s, 99 microscopes, and zero revenues.

Peter Lynch

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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
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