Skype

“With discord, the way that voice chat works is it's like an always on conference call because you invite people into a group space and then create a voice channel. If you and I are talking, You know, our friend can see that we're there and just click the butto…”

“EBay coming up with, like, a really attractive offer. 2.6 billion and a 500 million earn out.”

“Microsoft came along and makes an offer that, you know, the investors took on for eight and a half billion.”

“A lot of people picked up on this, I think kind of five, six percent or something of users. It was actually very, very popular. So we started collecting a lot of cash. So we didn't really have to touch that money that the twenty million that we raised in a ser…”

“And, you know, the companies I've been part of starting, one became really successful, but no money. One became a big home run, and two others, you know, we burnt a lot of money”

“They could have done, if you ask me, they could have done so much more with it. You know, they kind of, I think they missed an opportunity to make it really, really big.”

“The largest Internet M&A before us was PayPal to eBay, right? One point by a billion. And So this was like two X. And then you had. This is amazing. YouTube. YouTube was also 1.6 billion or something like that. Yeah. Also the same year with Google. So this was…”

“Microsoft announced that it would permanently retire Skype and shift its remaining users over to Microsoft Teams. Skype will ring for the last time on May fifth, 2025.”

“We looked at how many companies have been started from Skype alumni, and it turned out there's been 900 companies started by Skype alumni, but also the second generation”