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TIL Thomas Knoll built an image processing program to help with his Ph.D. work. With inputs from his brother John, he built a software package. Initially, they licensed the distribution rights to Adobe & 7 years later (in 1995) sold the rights to Photoshop for $34.5m. Thomas never finished his Ph.D.

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