And in a related story, Skype’s co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who sold the VOIP pioneer to eBay for $2.4B - $4.1B (time of purchase - final) are in talks to re-acquire Skype from eBay.
Oh, the two launched Joost, which has probably not matched the hype with which it launched.
In as much as Skype was a classic text book case of how to scale a web startup (come to think of it, I am shocked I didn’t put it in our Top 13 Explosive Web Startups of All Time), Joost makes the list of everything that can go wrong with a startup.
However, the fact that the two are publicly seeking to buy back Skype says as much about Joost as it does about Skype. One has to wonder, why not go sit on a beach, or invest in other projects via their Atomico fund?
Yes, the title of this post is meant as a joke.
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