Comments on: Further Details Emerge As Skype & Its Founders Close to Settlement

By: The Skype Spinout Version 2.0 | Voice on the Web

The Skype Spinout Version 2.0 | Voice on the Web — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:26:40 +0000

[...] Further Details Emerge As Skype & Its Founders Close to Settlement (Nov. 3) [...]

By: Skype Founders Fight There Way Into The New Skype

Skype Founders Fight There Way Into The New Skype — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:12:20 +0000

[...] by Kara Swisher on her blog last night. I reported the news of settlement this past weekend. Since then more details have emerged that Index Ventures and Michael Volpi were both out of the [...]

By: Fred.

Fred. — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:16:20 +0000

Seriously? Instead of skimming, read them and you’ll find he’s accused of: 1. Using his access (and understanding) to the Joltid code base to sell his investment group and Ebay on a deal with him. 2) While CEO of Joost, a company that was dying, he spent his time putting together this deal. NOTE: there were reports of Joost trying to sell itself during the same period but a deal never emerged. Think we know why. Where’s the fiduciary responsibility? 3. While Joost CEO he was working with founders to keep a key engineer from going to facebook by offering him more money. *At the same time* he was trying to poach that same engineer for Skype. WTF? 4) Oh, he also insulted everyone in his investor group in his emails, that’s not illegal just stupid.

But his biggest gaff is thinking he could replace the P2P with SIP, which was the basis of his investment case. As a former Cisco guy, that’s crazy dumb. Looks like his former partners eventually called b.s. on that.

Or, maybe his biggest gaff was deciding to screw the Skype guys. I guess he didn’t like them, but he made money with them as a skype board member and they gave him a shot at the Joost CEO, which he flubbed. This was his thanks….

Maybe any one of these things could be explained away, but the stack looks very bad. Think he needs to find another line of work.

By: Lesenswert: SchülerVZ, Online-Gaming-Branche, Kosmetik, Skype, Niklas Zennstrom, Facebook :: deutsche-startups.de

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:15:28 +0000

[...] Further Details Emerge As Skype & Its Founders Close to Settlement There is a good likelihood that Skype; its founders, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis; and a group of private equity investors led by Silver Lake Partners are close to settling their legal disputes, allowing eBay to sell 65 percent of Skype for about $2 billion. I had first reported the news this past weekend. As part of the settlement, Zennstrom and Friis are likely to get a board representation, and there is some talk of Index Ventures being out of the deal as well. Gigaom [...]

By: Skypeの買収劇はいよいよ「奇怪なサーカス(Cirque Du Freak)」に似てきたぞ

Skypeの買収劇はいよいよ「奇怪なサーカス(Cirque Du Freak)」に似てきたぞ — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:42:15 +0000

[...] 本誌の10月8日の記事では、Skypeの買収と訴訟をめぐる一件についてこう予言した: “ありうる最終結果は基本的に同じだ–JoltidがSkypeを分有する。しかしこの舞台の顔ぶれを見るかぎり、今後何が起きても不思議ではない”。GigaOmとNYTimesが正しいなら、今まさにその予言が実現しつつある。”何が起きても不思議ではない”の部分も含めて。 [...]

By: Julian Cain

Julian Cain — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:51:57 +0000

Volpi stole IP with the intent to overthrow and buy majority of Skype. When this began I stated here http://blog.junglecat.org/?p=84 that the Anthill has run amuck. The Anthill was a team inside Joost with Volpi was the lead. That post was over a year ago. I’ve know about this and have been informaing people but not even GigaOM reports the “latest” news or anything I consider close to the “latest”. Even worse over at TechCrunch you have Michael Arrington point blank lying and making up rumors of companies I worked at that were to be acquired by Skype. He got called out on his lies by other news sites because he could not deliver a source. Basically I’m sick of late and possibly faux news. I hope GigaOM stops becoming mainstream and begins being more transparent about their source materials and timeliness.

By: Skype Deal Is Turning Into A Bit Of A Cirque Du Freak

Skype Deal Is Turning Into A Bit Of A Cirque Du Freak — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:32:07 +0000

[...] stake of some size in Skype. But given the players involved, anything could still happen.” If GigaOm and the NYTimes are right, that’s exactly what’s happening. Even the “anything [...]

By: Piyush

Piyush — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:31:33 +0000

I skimmed through the attached docs and perhaps missed the wrongdoing on Volpi’s part. I thought all he was aiming for is gunning for a non-P2P architecture. And yes he wanted a deal for himself and didn’t care if Janus/Niklas would be unhappy. Where’s the wrong doing here? Sorry if I missed something obvious. Just curious to know.

Thanks.

By: Cyric

Cyric — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:55:56 +0000

Who cares if its old new “to you”? Its not old news to me and the rest of the people here (average public with no insider knowledge of the software community, unlike yourself?) which is probably a part of his overall target audience?

By: Julian Cain

Julian Cain — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:38:17 +0000

We’ve spoken vocally. Anyway, I was an engineer on Kazaa and Gizmo5 at SIPphone. Anyway, this is old news “to me”.