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A couple fun facts. Founder Steve Perlman sold WebTV to Microsoft for half a billion. Steve later saved a struggling pre-Google Android from being evicted by bringing his friend Andy Rubin $10k in cash[0], refusing a stake in the company.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#His...

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Andy Rubin was also a very early WebTVer; probably one of the first two or three employees, and was there through the Microsoft acquisition.

Andy Rubin also was a founder of Danger Inc. which was also eventually acquired by Microsoft.

Unfortunately the acquired talent that brought us the wonderful Hiptop/Sidekick devices were then wasted by being sucked into the Kin boondoggle.

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