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David Rosenthal: belief

11 Nov 2016 Acquired The Facebook IPO

“I agree. Quick followup on Skype, our last episode. We speculated on the show that Microsoft might have used foreign cash to buy Skype which was a non-US company, and it turns out that is indeed the case, was indeed the case.”

— David Rosenthal

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Speaker
David Rosenthal
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
11 Nov 2016
Publisher
Acquired

Transcript context

…Yeah. It's an invaluable product to the world and I really want it to endure. And it’s actually a pretty good business, like they sell a lot of ads and there are reasons why people use Twitter ads and can’t necessarily satisfy that or any other platform. It’s a good business; it’s a Facebook sized business and they really need to reduce their cost to get it to a place where it can actually live on sustainably. I agree. Quick followup on Skype, our last episode. We speculated on the show that Microsoft might have used foreign cash to buy Skype which was a non-US company, and it turns out that is indeed the case, was indeed the case. We were pointed in this direction by Nick Seguin, dear friend of Ben and the show, helped us a lot in the early days with feedback on the pilot. Thanks, Nick.…

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