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Swiftkey Co-Founder Misses Out On Millions, Sold Share For Bicycle

A founder of Swiftkey gave away his stake for a bicycle in 2008 and now his company is worth millions after Microsoft bought it up. Chris Hill-Scott invented the iPhone keyboard app, that uses artificial intelligence to predict the next written word, with two other partners. The predictive text app was sold yesterday to Microsoft for a massive £174 million. The Daily Mail reports: University friends Jon Reynolds, 30, and Ben Medlock, 36, have walked away with over £25million each after seven short years. Mr Hill-Scott, who now designs websites for the government, earning just above £50,000 per year, yesterday tweeted: ‘The biggest mistake I have ever made.’ Mr Reynolds and Ben Medlock founded the company in 2008 after leaving university. But despite them each nabbing a reported £25million each for their seven years work for the company, founder Mr Hill-Scott, 29. from Buckinghamshire, did not receive a penny. He gave up his directorship two weeks into the project to pursue a career in photography. Alongside his comment, posted on Twitter, he published a document from Companies’ House detailing his resignation as a director. The Times reported last night that Mr Hill-Scott disliked the long hours associated with working for a technology [...]