Skype, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Skype comes up
20VC: The Contentful Memo: Point Nine's Christoph Janz on The Cold Email That Led to a Unicorn Investment, How To Approach Market Sizing and Timing & The Pros and Cons of Pre-Emptive Rounds, When To Do Them vs When Not To?
- ▶ 6:22 Christoph Janz We jumped on a Skype call.
20VC: The Pinterest Memo: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on The Secret To Success within User Generated Content Plays, Where Most Investors Make Mistakes When Analysing Consumer Social and How The Pinterest Deal Wouldn't Have Happened without a Diverse Partners
- ▶ 29:08 Jeremy Levine Relative to the social communication services, like Skype in his early days, it wasn't, because people do like to talk to their friends every day.
20VC: Wunderlist & Pitch Founder, Christian Reber on His Personal Relationship with Risk, Money, Whether the Sale to Microsoft was a Mistake, What Great Product Designs Means Today & Why Founders Investing External Capital is a Distraction
- ▶ 10:24 Christian Reber Screwed up multiple acquisitions like Yammer or Skype, and they promised me when we sold it that they will try their very best not to screw up Wunderlist, and I think they did.
20VC: Etsy CEO, Josh Silverman on 2 Defining Traits of Great Leadership, The Danger of Attaching Happiness To Milestones, How To Structure Teams To Optimise for Experimentation and Agility &Whether You Learn More From Success Than Failure
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Prior to Etsy, though, Josh served as president of consumer products and services at American Express, who is also the CEO of Skype and CEO of shopping.com, and he also held various executive roles at eBay.
- ▶ 7:48 Josh Silverman You know, I mean, when they asked me to run Skype, I was at eBay. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:08 Josh Silverman When I took over at Skype, Meg Whitman was the CEO of eBay, which owned Skype at the time, and she had sort of talked a lot about Skype. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:15 Josh Silverman Four dot O was this new platform Skype was going to launch that was going to, you know, change the trajectory and fortunes of Skype. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:03 Josh Silverman And so if I'm thinking about the Skype example, you know, Skype had a real aversion to metric, to tracking things. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:18 Josh Silverman And so I said, we're going to wire Skype four dot O to allow us to understand anonymously our customers usage patterns.