Surfer Tom Morey, who invented the Boogie Board, dies at 86
But Mr. Morey didn’t get rich from the Boogie Board. He sold his company to Kransco, a toy manufacturer, in 1977 or 1978 for an unspecified reasonable sum and received no royalties. Mr Morey was philosophical about the accidental loss. “Tell me I sold this for a billion dollars,” he told the Los Angeles Times …
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