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Poor Leonardo. After losing out to Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni during his lifetime, he still doesn't get the credit or recognition his work deserves. Finally, someone trusted their intuition, and bought a sketch which looked to him like a Leonardo, and, lo - it was! His $19000 investment is now worth $150 million:

Now that's what I call reverse innovation!
If you'll excuse me, I'm off to the basement to see if I have any Da Vinci's lying around in my art collection...
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