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Gymshark: Ben Francis. From pizza delivery to billion-dollar fitness brand. Nov 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:47 Ben Francis Remember jumping on Skype to them, and just talking about the products that we were making, they gave us feedback, we'd send them the product, they would put them in their YouTube videos.

Calm: Alex Tew and Michael Acton Smith May 26, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 55:01 Michael Acton Smith Alex and I got on a, I think it was a Skype call with her, and, um, really liked her, and really liked her voice, and I think she offered to do some meditations, didn't she?

Skype and Kazaa: Niklas Zennström Mar 17, 2025 · 48 mentions

  • ▶ 1:07 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how a small team of Scandinavian entrepreneurs disrupted two global industries and built two iconic brands, Kazaa and Skype. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 36:43 Guy Raz What I'm curious about, I mean, this, this is now, 2002, you're digging into a very complex question, because it's not yet, what it would become, which of course was Skype, was not yet, it wasn't fully formed, how it would be used.
  • ▶ 37:25 Niklas Zennström So we, we were, we thought, like, we had this amazing business, what we called Skyper, because it was peer-to-peer in the sky, right, on the Wi-Fi. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 51:13 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, Nicholas is pursued not just by lawyers, but by executives from some of the biggest tech companies in the world who are looking to acquire Skype.
  • ▶ 52:01 Guy Raz But at the same time, Skype is exploding in popularity, and giant tech companies are starting to take notice. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 59:00 Guy Raz At eBay, running Skype, you and Janice start, um, two things. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:02:11 Guy Raz You were out of, by 2007, out of eBay, and, and, and done with Skype, and that was it. 16 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:09:05 Guy Raz That's Nicholas Zenstrom, co-founder of Kazaa and Skype. 3 times in the scene

Sir Kensington's: Scott Norton and Mark Ramadan Oct 23, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 31:41 Guy Raz And you were in New York, and Scott was in Asia, so you were, like, meeting on Skype, or? 2 times in the scene

WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg Mar 21, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:59 Matt Mullenweg Um, we'd probably chat, maybe we'd use, like, Skype or AOL, Instant Messenger or something, but,

Discord: Jason Citron Mar 7, 2022 · 2 mentions

Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler Feb 7, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 41:56 Otis Chandler We used Skype, and we used IRC chat boards, which are kind of like an early version of Slack, and Michael was up in San Francisco, our first engineer, and, 3 times in the scene

Coinbase: Brian Armstrong Nov 15, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:37 Brian Armstrong Yeah, so I think we did a couple kind of Skype calls or something like that, and then this is kind of crazy, but we had basically like a shotgun wedding almost.

Live From HIBT Summit: Payal Kadakia, Tristan Walker, and Perry Chen on Innovation Jul 22, 2021 · 1 mention

Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam Jan 11, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 51:31 Jack Conte No one's gonna buy it, but I'll just do that, um, where you can kind of do a one-on-one Skype session with me, and I'll hang out with you. 2 times in the scene

Cotopaxi: Davis Smith May 4, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:27 Davis Smith And I started reaching out to some people on Skype and just started doing phone calls and interviews with them.

Lyft: John Zimmer (2017) Jun 25, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:52 Guy Raz Just like remotely, you were in New York, and he was in Santa Barbara, and you were just, like, emailing and, like, Skyping and stuff all the time? 2 times in the scene

Lyft: John Zimmer Feb 13, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:53 Guy Raz Just like remotely, you were in New York, and he was in Santa Barbara, and you were just, like, emailing and, like, Skyping and stuff all the time? 2 times in the scene
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