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If it's a private seller I would think $14 million is a fair sum. No reason to get greedy. $14 million is enough to set yourself up for a long time. Land, homes and vacations could easily be the rest of your life starting NOW. $14 million or $25 million or $50 million..does it really matter all that much.
The point is that what he will get after taxes on the 14M will be about 8M, and then the interest on that 8M will be about what he could get from OWNING the site, bare min. He could have kept it and earned the same amount as selling it.
Yes, he probably made more per year from it then if he invested the money. BTW, I bet they are calling the proceeds capital gains so it is likely he came away with at least $11mill cash and with 10% portolio earnings he will likely make $1mill per year.
problem is he probably did not have the money to invest in it's real development. He should have made it a paysite... I think if you go back into Archive.org you can find old versions of what I think were atempts at creating a paysite
I dont think the money was an issue,even with its current design it should been making tens of thouzands a month and a few thouzands dollars are more than enough to create a good paysite
Probably web development is not for him and now he will invest the money in something he like/can do better