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GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen’s $56B Plan to Take Over eBay
- ▶ 37:57 unnamed speaker They bought PayPal and then later spun it out and divested and they bought Skype for 2.6 billion in 2005 and then sold 70% of it for two billion in 2009 and then they got lucky with Microsoft overpaying in 20 11 and they made another two… 3 times in the scene
Presidential Debate Reaction, Biden Hot Swap?, Tech unemployment, OpenAI considers for-profit & more
- ▶ 1:16:47 David Friedberg Microsoft bought Skype how many years ago for eight and a half billion dollars and then Zoom came around?
All-In Summit: MrBeast on his journey, business model, and the future
- ▶ 2:55 Jimmy Donaldson My mom thought it was crazy that I was talking to people on the internet, so I ended up just lying, like, oh, this is a joke, I just have a friend I'm talking to every night online or on Skype or whatever, um, and then once I hit 10,000…
Balaji Srinivasan: role of decentralization, China/US breakdown & more
- ▶ 12:58 Balaji Srinivasan That's to say, uh, you know, Napster led to Kazaa and LimeWire and actually the Kazaa guys went and did Skype, so something legit came out of that.
E15: “The Besties” All-In’s inaugural award show covering the best, worst & most memorable of 2020
- ▶ 19:07 Jason Calacanis Skype, Slack video, Google Hangouts, and fixing all their China issues and getting to a hundred billion dollar valuation is notable.