There’s been a storm over Skype’s private equity investors and their treatment of stock options, but is that storm a remnant of Silicon Valley’s cash-rich, founder-happy culture? Evidence from elsewhere would suggest that entrepreneurs just don’t know how good they’ve been getting it. Read more »
Skype is in the process of being sold to Microsoft is fast becoming a poster child of investor greed and corporate mistreatment of it employees. An ex-employee is blaming investor Silver Lake Partners. Our sources say that investors were interfering with the company too much. Read more »
Silverlake Partners, a Silicon Valley-based private equity and buyout firm, says it’s bought Intel’s data center in Santa Clara, Calif., and made it part of Vantage Data Centers, a new company headed by Jim Trout, a veteran of both the telecom and data center business. Read more »
