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Just a small correction: Microsoft bought Skype from Silver Lake / Andreessen Horowitz, not EBay. At the time Microsoft bought it, Skype seemed to prepare for an IPO, although I'm …

I assume he was also a Lyft driver and was accepting rides on both apps.

LinkedIn has generated $500M+ revenue in 2011 and will generate more than $900M this year. And they market value is $13B. So you can hardly call them "vaporware with no revenue".

Probably he means that the data from the backup is not up-to-date (i.e. not actual).

I think that Sheryl Sandberg has options worth close to $1B, but either they are not vested yet, or she didn't exercise them. Still not as much as Moskovitz or Parker, but probably…

I think that LinkedIn is trading at less than 20x revenue (revenue in 2011 was more than $500M, and market cap is around $10B)

A16Z invested in PicPlz, which was a competitor to Instagram, after the initial investment in Instagram (which was then called Burbn and was doing something else). So, after Burbn …

Probably the best example is Amazon. They were unprofitable for the first 6 years or so, using VC money (and money from the IPO) to increase their market share as quickly as possib…

What about Avangate (www.avangate.com)? I don't know too much about them, so I am not sure if they are what you're looking for.

It couldn't have been 2003. There was no Facebook then.

Well, they might be right, if they are referring only to the money that are invested in the company itself (i.e. by issuing new shares, not by buying out existing shareholders). Ou…

I think that MySpace was valued at $12 billion at some point; where there where rumours that Yahoo! would merge with MySpace, and News Corp would receive 25% of Yahoo's shares (the…

Is it possible for Microsoft to buy only the smartphone unit from Nokia, and let Nokia manufacture and sell feature phones? That would make more sense for Microsoft, but I am not s…

Maybe he's in touch with a Nokia insider that has knowledge of their intentions, and this is way he is so good at predicting Nokia-related news, but not other news.

1) Skype has stronger growth than when it was owned by eBay 2) When it was spun off by eBay, Skype acquired the IP of their P2P technology from the founders. This makes it more att…

I think that Microsoft buying Skype makes more sense than Google or Facebook buying Skype. First, the way for Skype to make decent revenues is to go for the enterprise market, whic…

The cultures of Amazon and Netflix are more similar than the cultures of a generic mature company and a start-up. Amazon is still taking risks and starting new businesses - AWS is …

I think the most important thing is that they have healthy revenue growth (more than 100%). If they have $90M in revenue per quarter, they can do much better than $2M in net income…

This article seems to overlook the fact that even if Amazon, Ebay, Microsoft had a very small valuation at the time of their IPO, the founders, early employees, and probably some V…

Indeed, the fact that Skype was spun off by Ebay, and is preparing for an IPO with close to $1Bn in revenue, contradicts a significant part of this conspiracy theory. Although, it …

Here it is: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-03/facebook-is-said-to... To be more precise, it's $2B in EBITDA, not net profit.

I don't see many reasons for Facebook to buy Skype: 1) Technology: Skype's core technology is their P2P technology. They have their own clients for PCs and mobiles. Facebook reside…

Facebook may make $2B in profits this year. So I think they could come up with this cash. Also, they can give some of this amount in stock.

I am not sure that Marc Andreessen has so much influence at Facebook. He has one of the 3 board seats that are controlled by Zuckerberg. And Skype would be Facebook's biggest acqui…