It certainly killed off investment by people that had no money to invest in the first place. Which enabled Xamarin to create a base of over 500,000 of paying cu

It certainly killed off investment by people that had no money to invest in the first place. Which enabled Xamarin to create a base of over 500,000 of paying customers which tends to help when your business plan stretches about 5 years, to bump up the value as much as possible, before the planned sale to Microsoft.