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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
10 Aug 2021 Acquired Andreessen Horowitz Part II
“Tech private equity firm, Silver Lake, who I believe the Silver Lake headquarters are in the same Rosewood office park on Sand Hill Road that Andreessen headquarters are in.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 10 Aug 2021
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Andreessen Horowitz Part II
Transcript context
…The private equity firm, Silver Lake. Tech private equity firm, Silver Lake, who I believe the Silver Lake headquarters are in the same Rosewood office park on Sand Hill Road that Andreessen headquarters are in. Maybe they talked about it at lunch at the Rosewood one day. We haven't talked about the headquarters literally in the Rosewood complex on Sand Hill. It can't get any better than that. So yeah, $50 million into the spin out of Skype from eBay. The whole transaction is a $2 billion purchase of 65% of Skype from eBay. Worked out pretty well, but they probably should have spun out PayPal instead of Skype. That would have been a lot better. They did eventually, but both of them ended up being really fantastic ideas. Both of them created a lot more value independently.…
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