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Leo Hendrik Baekeland, born in 1863, was always at the head of his class. He graduated at sixteen and received his doctor’s degree maxima cum laude when he was still only twenty-one. By 1891, he had opened an office in the US as an independent consultant and invented a type of photographic paper that could be developed under artificial light. In 1899, Leo Baekeland was still struggling with his Velox photosensitive manufacturing business. One day he received an invitation letter from George Eastman-Kodak, who had established the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, New York. George suggested that if Baekeland was willing to sell his Velox manufacturing company, he was welcome to visit him for a talk. During the long carriage ride up to Rochester, Baekeland planned to ask for $50,000, but kept wondering if he would be able to get even $25,000 for his manufacturing process. George Eastman invited Leo Baekeland into his office, and fortunately for Baekeland, Eastman spoke first and right away offered him one million dollars. Baekeland immediately took the offer. He could now afford to do his research in a well-equipped laboratory and went on to invent the first plastic, Bakelite.
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Baarslag, T. (2016). Introduction. In: Exploring the Strategy Space of Negotiating Agents. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28243-5_1
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