Comments on: Static On Skype, Zennstrom Quits

By: Skype, Founders Settlement in the Works?

Skype, Founders Settlement in the Works? — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:18:54 +0000

[...] October 1, 2007: Zennstrom quits Skype. [...]

By: Will eBay Hang Up on Sype? - GigaOM

Will eBay Hang Up on Sype? - GigaOM — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:43:41 +0000

[...] division. EBay purchased Skype in 2005 with a potential pay out of $4.1 billion. However, last year eBay wrote down the value of the acquisition by $1.4 billion, essentially admitting it [...]

By: Will eBay Hang Up on Skype? - GigaOM

Will eBay Hang Up on Skype? - GigaOM — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:38:53 +0000

[...] division. EBay purchased Skype in 2005 with a potential pay out of $4.1 billion. However, last year eBay wrote down the value of the acquisition by $1.4 billion, essentially admitting it [...]

By: Skype gets a new chief …. Again! - GigaOM

Skype gets a new chief …. Again! - GigaOM — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:04:32 +0000

[...] given us much to write about, especially the changes in the C-suite. Niklas Zennstrom (co-founder) left a few months ago and was replaced by interim CEO Michael van Swaaij who is now being replaced by Josh Silverman, [...]

By: For Skypers, First The Party, Then The Job Cuts - GigaOM

For Skypers, First The Party, Then The Job Cuts - GigaOM — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 02:46:46 +0000

[...] senior executives had already quit the company. On October 1, Niklas announced that he was resigning as the CEO and Skype took an impairment charge of about $1.43 [...]

By: TechCrunch en français » [fr] Rumeur du jour: Google rachèterait Skype à eBay

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:07:32 +0000

[...] aussi bien sur le plan utilisateur que sur le plan revenus. Alors soit les fondateurs ont quitté la barque et Google ne cache pas ses ambitions aussi bien dans le domaine du Wifi que dans celui du [...]

By: Rumor: Skype4Sale? Google A Buyer? « GigaOM

Rumor: Skype4Sale? Google A Buyer? « GigaOM — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:00:15 +0000

[...] most of the old Skype team including co-founders Niklas and Janus gone, these rumors are bound to surface. There are questions about how much more Skype can grow. In [...]

By: Skype-Branded Mobile Phone to Launch on Oct. 29? « GigaOM

Skype-Branded Mobile Phone to Launch on Oct. 29? « GigaOM — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:30:25 +0000

[...] by Om Malik Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 8:00 AM PT | No comments Now that eBay (EBAY) has admitted that it overpaid for Skype, it is time for the company to start trying to recover some of its investment. [...]

By: Michael Jackson to Skype: Beat It « GigaOM

Michael Jackson to Skype: Beat It « GigaOM — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:10:28 +0000

[...] AM PT | No comments The exodus of senior management from eBay’s Skype division continues. Ten days after co-founder Niklas Zennstrom decided to say sayonara to the P2P telephony company, Michael Jackson, [...]

By: whenwego

whenwego — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:33:32 +0000

Hope none of the management or board at Ebay are investors in the Draper VC funds which made tons of money on Skype. That would be a BIG conflict of interest, no?

By: Skype loses its hype

Skype loses its hype — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:48:12 +0000

[...] Yesterday, Forbes reported on eBay’s continuing problems with Skype. Om Malik also discussed this development yesterday. [...]

By: arjun

arjun — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:22:50 +0000

This time next year we'll be saying "who was the idiot at Google responsible for the youtube purchase decision". Okay, Youtube is a much better buy than Skype and for far less, but how long before it makes up the $1.6B and untold losses it is incurring every day?

By: Don Jones

Don Jones — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:01:54 +0000

Maybe the Skype guys were busy with their own venture capital outfit, Atomico...

By: Satish Sharma

Satish Sharma — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:15:07 +0000

Skype's business model (is)was fundamentally flawed.

Adding subscribers will constantly reduce calls that generate revenue and if everyone in the world were to get skype, it will have zero revenue.

There is a critical point beyond which having to maintain infra-structure costs a lot more than revenues. With 220 Million accounts, my calculation says that Skype reached that point a while ago !!

Most businesses would love hockey stick growth, skype would collapse even if it hit halfway!

The management & VCs sold out at a good time.

As PT Barnum said .. there is sucker born every minute.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:00:55 +0000

If you were Michael Jackson would you want to take over as CEO at this point? I doubt it.

Skype will either be spun off/sold or made just a little division within eBay. The independent little company that could is long gone.

By: ronald

ronald — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:34:24 +0000

Quote from:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/01/ebays-4-billion-lesson-in-the-value-of-hype/

“Here’s a suggestion to every Internet executive: take a Post-It note, write “EBay wasted $3 billion on Skype” and stick it to your monitor. Stare at it the next time some hot social whatever-2.0 company comes by and talks about growing fast and finding a revenue model later.”