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ehfeng | 4 years ago

You are technically right, but Nat comes from Microsoft's acquisition of Xamarin. He definitely is not a lifelong Microsoft employee.

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mohanmcgeek|4 years ago

I don't think that matters in the context of what's being discussed here.

If there were any retention contracts that came with GitHub acquisition, that probably didn't apply to him.

ehfeng|4 years ago

You misunderstand why I brought up him being from Xamarin.

The initial conversation was about how Nat was likely leaving because his contract ran out. The counterpoint was that he was from the Microsoft side and therefore he didn't have a retention contract. I brought up Xamarin because he was likely under a retention contract from that acquisition.

That being said, these contracts probably had little to no effect on his decision though, as I'm sure he would have made more money than he could spend in a lifetime regardless of whether he had stayed or not.