To earn back just the investment capital, to say nothing of a return on that grubstake, requires a lot of transactions.

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That grubstake paid for the first of an Oddworld quintology, Abe's Oddysee.

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That latter trade amassed a grubstake for the two sons in a chemicals maker, Vam Organic, that would gain from the remaining license raj in India.

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