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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Skype comes up
20VC: How The Best Founders Approach Bet The Company Decisions, How to Put Your Board to Work & How To Optimise Strategic Thinking on Boards with Maynard Webb, Founder @ Webb Investment Network & Everwise
- ▶ 18:52 Maynard Webb And so, for example, when we were looking to buy Skype at eBay, we used that analogy to say, okay, if it doesn't work, is it going to hit us above the waterline where it's going to be ugly and we're going to have to fix it, but it's…
20VC: Why Partners Are There To Save Each Other From Themselves, Why Effective Reserve Allocation Is The Hardest Question In Venture & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members with Jeff Fagnan, Founding Partner @ Accomplice
- ▶ 32:44 Jeff Fagnan He would Skype in and everything like this, and Fred would just get in his kind of mastermind head the types of things he wanted to do and chase after him, and there wasn't a lot of collaboration, and I think venture is a really…
20VC: GOAT's Eddy Lu on Pivoting From Failing Social Dining App To The World's Largest Sneaker Marketplace, How The Best Founders Pick Their Investors & Why It Is Better To Be Hated than Unknown
20VC: Andy McLoughlin on The Benefits of Backing Unsexy Businesses with Non-Obvious Founders, How To Distinguish Between A Good Bridge Round and A Bridge To Nowhere & Whether VCs Really Do Add Value?
- ▶ 13:53 Andy McLoughlin Both doing the selling and then managing a sales team, and then, you know, being lucky enough to hook up with a bunch of ex-guys from Skype to actually build the technology, all of a sudden, it makes perfect sense.
20VC: Why Facebook Will Be The Company To Succeed in Crypto, Why Founders Should Be Actively Angel Investing & Commonalities of Great Leadership From Mark Zuckerberg to Mark Pincus with Darian Shirazi, Founder & CEO @ Radius
- ▶ 28:29 Harry Stebbings I mean, I'm hugging you through Skype right now, but I do want to do a penultimate question.
20VC: Why This Is Just The Start for Consumer Mobile, 3 Lessons China Taught About How To Invest Better In The US & How To Think About The Opportunity Cost of Capital Deployment with Hans Tung, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings And previously, Hans was with Bessemer Venture Partners, where he helped global players such as Skype expand into China.