Context: Bell and his partners, Hubbard and Sanders, offered to sell the patent outright to Western Union for $100,000. The president of Western Union balked, countering that the telephone was nothing but a toy. Two years later, he told colleagues that if he could get the patent for $25 million he would consider it a bargain. By then, the Bell company no longer wanted to sell the patent. Bell's investors would become millionaires, while he fared well from residuals and at one point had assets of nearly one million dollars.

Question: How much did Bell et al. try to sell his patent for?
Answer: $100,000

Question: Who did Bell et al. try to sell his patent to?
Answer: Western Union

Question: What did the President think the telephone was, such that he refused to buy the patent?
Answer: a toy

Question: How much the the President of Western Union want to pay for the patent later on?
Answer: $25 million