Skype

"In the literally like the first couple months after we closed the first fund, we invested in Skype. And yeah, if you remember, Skype was part of eBay, right? Skype had been bought by eBay and it was like completely neglected inside of eBay and yet..."

"When we were building Skype in the early days, from a business development point of view, one of the things that we did was we went to every major market in the world, identified the largest internet service provider or the top two or three, and t..."

"They bought Skype for 2.6 billion in 2005, then sold 70% of it for 2 billion in 2009, and then they got lucky with Microsoft overpaying in 2011 and they made another 2 billion on it."

"Discord, who's one of our companies, was also a game company that failed and launched this Skype alternative for communicating during games"

Matthew Hussey

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"That led to a long-distance relationship via Skype for six months."