I'm pretty sure he was comparing the value of their company to his not saying he was hoping for them to randomly cut him a check for 1/12th their selling price.
He was saying that he didn't even have a grand aspirations as what his product was worth, a smaller payday would have made him happy, if fates had just been less cruel.
Actually I took a tiny payday in 08 because of health problems - $200K over 10 years for a third of a $2M per year business with 66% gross margins. Nobody was buying or lending any money at that time and the stress was killing me. I was 38 with children and developed arrhythmia. My wife and I decided it was better to risk being broke to being dead. Fates have been plenty cruel, but things are looking better these days.
