Skype: The Inside Story of the Boffo $8.5 Billion Deal  

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Maney, Kevin

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: Fortune vol. 164 no. 2 (Jul. 2011), page 59-62.
Topik: Skype; Tech Company; IT Industry; Technology Bubble; Internet Service

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For many, the Skype deal is seen -- along with exuberance for the LinkedIn IPO and sky-high private valuations of companies such as Facebook -- as a sign of a fast-inflating technology bubble: What else could explain such a lofty price tag for a company that lost $7 million in 2010 and $418 million the year before? What could have changed in just two years to make Skype nearly three times as valuable? A lot, according to the executives behind the transaction, who spoke with Fortune exclusively about the strategic and tactical moves they made to transform the company from a quirky Internet phone service into a sophisticated and growing voice and video communications app. Indeed, Skype had long-standing plans to go public, and its backers felt sure it would have thrived on its own. "We have occasional fantasies of calling up [Microsoft] and torpedoing the deal," quips Marc Andreessen, founder of Andreessen-Horowitz. "I'm thrilled with the deal but would be equally thrilled if it fell apart."

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