By Joel South
Publication Date: 2026-05-09 12:00:00
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On a recent episode of We Study Billionaires (TIP813), host Trey Lockerbie laid out a bull case for Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT | MSFT Price Prediction)‘s GitHub acquisition. “$7.5 billion for the world’s most dominant coding platform, and which is also now the world’s most adopted AI coding tool, and then also the primary channel through which Microsoft acquires developers who make cloud decisions,” Lockerbie called it “maybe one of the best technology acquisitions of the last decade.”
Microsoft announced the GitHub deal in June 2018 and closed it that October for $7.5 billion. Since closing, MSFT shares have returned 340%, with the stock at $415.40 as of May 8, and a market cap of roughly $3.08 trillion. The acquisition price is now a rounding error against Microsoft’s scale.
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