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Jim Jannard founded sunglasses brand Oakley out of his car in 1975.
He took Oakley public in 1995 and sold it to Luxottica in 2007 for $2.1 billion in cash.
By then he was working on his next project, Red Digital, building high-resolution cameras used in movies like "Avatar" and "The Hobbit." He agreed to sell the business to Nikon in March 2024.
He launched Red Hydrogen One, a holographic smartphone that was plagued with issues, in 2018 but shut down the project in 2019.
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