![]() ![]() “Even already having this optimistic viewpoint that lead me to doing the acquisition, I wasn’t expecting the level of talent, passion, optimism, cooperation, and enthusiasm that I saw among Satya’s and Scott’s top team.” He also noted that he doesn’t think “the public reputation of Microsoft, even though it has improved, has caught up to the reality of what’s going on inside Microsoft.” “I was really surprised, to be honest,” he said. He also stressed that after having met Nadella, Liuson and other members of Microsoft’s executive team during an offsite meeting a few weeks ago, he felt even better about the acquisition. “We had a very healthy, exciting, stand-alone business that we loved running, but when you have the opportunity to make your code open source and free and available to hundreds of times as many developers, it’s hard to pass that up,” he said. While Xamarin long stressed that it wasn’t really for sale, Friedman argued that what also attracted him in this deal was the ability to reach more developers. That was a huge attraction to us - being part of this new Microsoft, being part of this recognition that we are in a multi-platform world, this cloud revolution.” “Satya and Scott have made huge changes and the vibe, the personality, the perspective, the energy of Microsoft are so exciting to us right now. “That attracted us a lot,” Friedman said. ![]() Over the course of the discussion, Friedman and Liuson stressed Microsoft’s support for open source as one of the reasons Xamarin is such a good fit for the company. As Friedman, who co-founded Xamarin with Miguel de Icaza, told me, the acquisition discussions with Microsoft started in earnest around the middle of November 2015 and he signed the term sheet in the early morning on January 1. ![]()
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