Is it really patentable and novel? Is it some secret that it would take other companies 10 years to figure out? Do you want to hire lawyers to look at competition and beat them with a bat when you find they are violating your patent? To you have a competitor that is litigious and throws their weight around using patents?

If the answers to these are yes, patents can be nice to have. Otherwise just make yourself financially successful. Patents aren’t usually the key

Why not 100? if you are doing the work? What are they doing? Figure out the whole picture of who is creating value, then figure out the value of your part. That’s the minimum number of