It was at this pivotal moment that Hinton created DNNresearch, the company they would auction off in a Lake Tahoe hotel room that December for $44 million. When it came time to split the proceeds, the plan had always been to divide the money equally among the three of them. But at one point, the two graduate students told Hinton he deserved a larger share: 40 percent. “You’re giving away an awful lot of money,” he told them. “Go back to your rooms and sleep on it.” When they returned the next morning, they insisted he take the larger share. “It tells you what kind of people they are,” Hinton
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