Shortly after Revelations 1.3 came out, someone in Jita Local was trying to sell their data interface for 1.5b. Feeling it wasn't worth that much (and knowing I didn't HAVE that much!), I haggled him down to 1b. I pulled 400m from ZERO. and 600m from my wallet for this purchase.
With the help of a corpmate, we rapidly started Inventing, and made a fair bit of isk doing so. As he has now acquired another data interface and wishes to continue inventing, I won't go into details, but ZERO. made over 100m isk from this Inventing, and that amount will be rolled into next month's dividend.
Meanwhile, as ZERO. is not in the business of owning data interfaces, I was running an auction for the Interface in question. If the data interface didn't sell, or if it sold for less than 1b, the onus would have been on me to repay ZERO.'s 400m investment. However, I am pleased to report that it sold for 2b isk, and after paying ZERO. its share, I was able to issue a second dividend this month of 326,203,282.80 isk, brining the total dividend for this month up to 1,003,877,993.46 isk. Having paid out well over 8% in dividends, I was now able to take my salary for this month, slightly over 53m (I don't have numbers in front of me at the moment).
Two other developments:
- Tinydot Reprocessing Investment Trust [TINY.], a sister company of Zerodot Schools, will be conducting its phase-two IPO on the 15th of this month. Watch the Market Discussions forum for details.
- Motivated Prophet is now a recognized broker on the Eve Galactic Stock Exchange.
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