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He had to stay on until he was free to leave under the microsoft acquisition contract. 2 years sound about right.
by nyxaiur 5y ago
He had to stay on until he was free to leave under the microsoft acquisition contract. 2 years sound about right.
- tiffanyh 5y agoThat's not what happened here. Nat founded Xamarin which was acquired by Microsoft in 2016. Github was acquired in 2018 and Nat was already an Microsoft employee at time. So Nat departing now is actually 5 years post the Xamarin acquisition (when he joined Microsoft). https://www.linkedin.com/in/natfriedman/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/natfriedman/ EDIT: what's also interesting is that Thomas Dohmke joined Microsoft in 2015, moved to the Github division around the time of the acquisition (2018) but only became CPO 4 months ago.
- oaiey 5y agoThomas' own blog sounded a bit like he was the special task manager. So do not read too much into this 4 months.
- ksec 5y agoI wonder if he stick with Microsoft long enough would he have a chance of becoming the next M$ CEO.
- jassmith87 5y agoMany people within Microsoft felt that he was a clear contender for Satya's eventual successor.
- ksec 5y agoDamn. Satya is 54, within 10 years he could definitely be the CEO. But I guess most entrepreneur just dont like sticking around and not building.
- fragmede 5y agoWe don't actually know one way or another. Golden handcuffs are very common in the industry and it's very easy to imagine that becoming CEO of very public and important subdivision of a cloud company comes with a very large stock option grant. Easily 8-figures worth. When/how they expire are also a mystery to us. I'm sure he didn't get the standard engineer vesting schedule of 4-years with a 1-year cliff.