James Dyson still owns 100% of Dyson, which does annual sales of ~$9B. His mentor Jeremy Fry gave initial seed capital in 1979 and owned 49% of Dyson up to early-1990s. Dyson told David Senra he bought out Fry for £45k. They remained friends after (Fry left because they were in a lawsuit with another company and he didn’t want to deal with it). Also, it did take Dyson 5,127 prototypes and years before his breakthrough. The company is probably worth $20-30B and he owns 100%. Wild. *** Full…