Skype sold to eBay for $4.1 billion

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Skype sold to eBay

Amazing! Congrats to my former boss, Lenn Pryor. Skype was just sold to eBay for, if I read this right, $4.1 billion.

Jeff Clavier looks at the details.

Some people have come up to me and asked me "does this deal make any sense to you?" It does. eBay is a marketplace. It's about putting buyers and sellers together. Now, how can you make that marketplace more efficient? Voice and video.

Selling things is easier when you can tell and show. Skype is all about that.

But it still is a shockingly large deal and my former boss right now is looking like the smartest guy around.