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Zennström: Microsoft Missed a Huge Opportunity to Make Skype 'Really Big'
“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.”
Zennström: Skype Was the Largest Post-Dot-Com Internet Acquisition Globally
“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…”
Zennström: eBay Acquired Skype for $2.6B Upfront Plus a $500M Earn-Out
“EBay coming up with, like, a really attractive offer. 2.6 billion and a 500 million earn out.”
Zennström: Prepaid SkypeOut Cash Flow Preserved Skype's $20M Series B
“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…”
Guy Raz: Microsoft Will Permanently Retire Skype on May 5, 2025
“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.”
Zennström: Over 900 Tech Companies Were Founded by the Skype Alumni Network
“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”
Zennström: Microsoft Acquired Skype for $8.5 Billion in 2011
“Microsoft came along and makes an offer that, you know, the investors took on for eight and a half billion.”
Zennström: My Founder Record is One Home Run, One Hit, Two Failures
“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”
Citron: Discord's always-on voice channels enable spontaneous drop-in calling unlike 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…”