The Mastermind behind the Plan

Rubin met Bill Caswell, an engineer at Apple, in the year 1989. Rubin supported Caswell when he had to dwelling to live in. That’s when Caswell returned his favor by offering Rubin a job at Apple. Rubin worked at Apple from 1989 to 1992. He later joined a company drawn out of Apple, General Magic. He then moved to WebTV which was in due course acquired by Microsoft.

He also left Microsoft to start own his own venture, Danger which eventually brought T-Mobile Sidekick into existence. 

Arrival of Google

Larry Page was one of the few people who actually could see potential in Rubin’s Android when the idea appeared vague to others.

A meeting was organized by Page where Sears came along with Rubin in January, 2005. Google’s co-founder, Sergey Brin, a Google Ventures advisor, Georges Harik was also part of the meeting. The meetings were all praises about Rubin and his work and seemed like more of problem solving session on how Rubin could have made his Sidekick better and Google looked interested in Android. The meeting ended with a question – what was the purpose of the meeting? And, was Google a potential competitor for Android?

45 days later another meeting was called where Google came out clear with its intentions of buying Android. The team Android agreed to the proposal at $50 million and shifted to Google plex in July, 2005.

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