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That same year, Rubin ran out of money. [[Steve Perlman]], a close friend of Rubin, brought him $10,000 in cash in an envelope and refused a stake in the company.<ref name="StevePerlman">{{cite news |url=http://www.airsla.org/broadcasts/BusinessWeek110802.mp3 |title=A Thousand Times Yes |last=Vance |first=Ashlee |publisher=Bloomberg BusinessWeek |date=August 7, 2011 |accessdate=2011-11-09}}</ref>

=== Google acquistion ===

Google acquired Android Inc. on August 17, 2005, making Android Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of Google. Key employees of Android Inc., including Andy Rubin, Rich Miner and Chris White, stayed at the company after the acquisition.<ref name="AndroidInc"/> Not much was known about Android Inc. at the time of the acquisition, but many assumed that Google was planning to enter the [[mobile phone]] market with this move.<ref name="AndroidInc"/>

=== Post-acquisition development ===

At [[Google]], the team led by Rubin developed a mobile device platform powered by the [[Linux kernel]]. Google marketed the platform to handset makers and [[Mobile network operator|carriers]] on the promise of providing a flexible, upgradable system. Google had lined up a series of hardware component and software partners and signaled to carriers that it was open to various degrees of cooperation on their part.<ref name="EngadgetMobileOS">{{cite web |url=http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/28/google-is-working-on-a-mobile-os-and-its-due-out-shortly |title=Google is working on a mobile OS, and it's due out shortly |last=Block |first=Ryan |work=[[Engadget]] |date=August 28, 2007 |accessdate=2012-02-17}}</ref><ref name="WSJ">{{cite news |url=http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB118602176520985718-lMyQjAxMDE3ODA2MjAwMjIxWj.html |title=Google Pushes Tailored Phones To Win Lucrative Ad Market |last1=Sharma |first1=Amol |first2=Kevin J. |last2=Delaney |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date=August 2, 2007 |accessdate=2012-02-17}}</ref><ref name="DT">{{cite web |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070703031543/http://www.directtraffic.org/OnlineNews/Google_admits_to_mobile_phone_plan_18094880.html |archivedate=July 3, 2007 |url=http://www.directtraffic.org/OnlineNews/Google_admits_to_mobile_phone_plan_18094880.html |title=Google admits to mobile phone plan |work=directtraffic.org |publisher=Google News |date=March 20, 2007 |accessdate=2012-02-17}}</ref>