Skype, every mention
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every year 2015 anyone Josh Silverman 25Harry Stebbings 18Akin Babayigit 11Chris Dark 5Taavet Hinrikus 4Jason Lemkin 4Steve O'Hear 2Sitar Teli 2Markus Villig 2Henrique Dubugras 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Skype comes up
20 VC: How To Say No Fast and Efficiently and Why UX Must Always Be At The Core Of What You Do with Sitar Teli, Managing Partner @ Connect Ventures
- ▶ 5:13 Sitar Teli But back then, you know, Skype was probably the only product people had heard of. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:33 Harry Stebbings What do you think has taken that change from the kind of unknown Skype birthplace to what it is today?
20 VC FF 021: From TechCrunch to Founder to TechCrunch with the legend, Steve O'Hear
- ▶ 24:54 Steve O'Hear Even though I don't go for that, but like, it's, yeah, the conversational style of 30 minutes is, can often produce some really good content, and I, the thing is, I do a lot of Skype interviews, and 2 times in the scene
20 VC 086: Starting A New Venture Fund and How London Compares To The US with Hussein Kanji @ Hoxton Ventures
- ▶ 16:40 Hussein Kanji And it happens very naturally when you're physically there, but when you're far away, just people forget to Skype you or send you an email, right?
20 VC 082: 500 Startups Week: Growth Hacking 101: How To 10x Your Conversion with Matt Lerner, Head of Distro Dojo London
- ▶ 4:34 Matt Lerner So in the evening, cause they're in California time, most of these companies, I'd get on these Skype calls with people and they'd explain their business.
20 VC 072: Super Angel, Fabrice Grinda: The Future of Startup Investing
- ▶ 26:10 Fabrice Grinda On Skype, by default, every time someone logs in, you see the little name, that needs to be off.
20 VC 068: Why Now Is The Best Time To Be An Entrepreneur with Sean Seton-Rogers @ PROfounders Capital
- ▶ 8:16 Sean Seton-Rogers Because, uh, as much as we like to use Skype and Google Hangouts and all this sort of stuff, um, the ability to meet face-to-face on a regular basis with someone is, um, is just hugely valuable.
20 VC 067: Scaling Startups Into Unicorns with Atomico's Mattias Ljungman and Carolina Brochado
- ▶ 19:53 Carolina Brochado I'm, I think, you know, based on the experience of, you know, the, the many people who, who built Skype and have been around, you know, in technology for such a long time, we tried to pinpoint, um, what are sort of the, the key areas that…
20 VC 065: FOUNDRY GROUP WEEK 1: Brad Feld: Founders Should Be Obsessed, Passion Belongs In The Bedroom
20 VC 043: How To Be A VC Analyst and Lessons From Union Square and First Round with Charlie O'Donnell, Founder @ Brooklyn Bridge Venture
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Sold to Constant Contact, and GroupMe, sold to Skype.
20 VC 033: The Pros and Cons of Venture Capital, Atomico and Entrepreneurship with Chris Dark, President International @ C2FO
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Following game replays, Chris has held leadership positions at AOL and Bain, before making his foray into venture capital with Atomico, the London-based venture fund founded by Skype founder Nicholas Zenstorm.
- ▶ 3:18 Chris Dark Um, and so, so I left there and, um, actually was just in conversation with Nicholas, who was one of the Skype founders. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:20 Chris Dark So the people they have around the world are this unique resource that built Skype around the world, which was phenomenally successful.
- ▶ 19:03 Chris Dark Let's use Skype as a great example. 2 times in the scene