Skype Employee Defections

Andy Abramson points to Om Malik's reflection about pre-eBay Skype employees that have been leaving recent - some of them highly placed. Not to be a cynic or rain on anyone's parade, but when a huge company takes over another company that wasn't as profit-driven, shakeouts are normal.

Having worked or consulted for many large companies since the early 1990s - including a large telecom- I've seen this happen over and over. There are always people who liked things the way they were and either cannot or do not want to be part of the change. There's nothing wrong with that. Doesn't anyone remember that Skype's URL used to be skype.org - a TLD often but not always associated with "no profit". At least, I don't remember the .com before eBay took over, but I could be wrong.

Now eBay paid a lot of money for Skype - what was it, US$2.6B? And eBay wants Skype to pay off. Well, I've worked in companies that had 20 employees and left after they a hundred. The atmosphere always changes. And telephony and pure Internet companies end up being quite competitive in atmosphere.

Written by ewriter on January 1st, 1970 with no comments.
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