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Careers Behind the Code: Building Careers and Companies with Open Source with Miguel de Icaza

In this episode, we talk to Miguel de Icaza, Distinguished Engineer about his career building open source software, founding companies, and building communities. 1:10 - What Miguel does at Microsoft 4:15- Miguel's origins in Open Source during college 8:00 - The Birth of GNOME 10:30 - The Birth of Mono 12:45 - Unity and Mono 14:38 - Forming Xamarin 16:51 - Key Career Inflection - Laid off from Novell, saving the team 18:45 - Critical lesson from his first company "it's very difficult to make money selling Open Source software" 19:42 - Deciding when to take VC money 23:50 - How Miguel learned to run a business 26:09 - Key Learning: Learning creativity from "The Art of Possibility" by Benjamin Zander and Rosamund Stone Zander 29:00 - On Miguel's plan to undermine Microsoft :) 29:54 - Building a spreadsheet teaches Miguel how to take on bigger challenges 33:00 - Miguel's coaches, partners, and mentors 34:00 - Miguel on networking and building community and the power of IRC 39:34 - Worst career advice 40:00 - Productivity hacks