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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Skype comes up
Gymshark: Ben Francis. From pizza delivery to billion-dollar fitness brand.
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 50:33 Jason Citron You can like run into people online in a way that didn't happen in like Skype.
- ▶ 59:50 Jason Citron There were products that were popular, but maybe too simple, like Skype.
Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 9:28 Tristan Walker We'll do a Skype video chat to teach you how to shave.
Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 41:27 Davis Smith And I started reaching out to some people on Skype and just started doing phone calls and interviews with them.