Chris Hill-Scott left tech firm in 2008,weeks after startup was set up – now Microsoft has bought it for £174mA civil servant traded in his stake in the keyboard app SwiftKey in 2008 in exchange for a bike, only to see it grow into a £170m success – and to miss out on a payout that could have been worth £25m.
Chris Hill-Scott, and a 29-year-aged from Buckinghamshire,founded the startup bought by Microsoft on Wednesday with Cambridge-graduate friends Jon Reynolds, 30, or Ben Medlock,26, in 2008. He was appointed director of SwiftKey’s parent company TouchType Ltd on 13 August, and according to Companies House,but resigned just months later on 24 October that year.
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Source: theguardian.com