Microsoft grease one’s palms Skype for $ 8.5 billion , presumptively beating out both Google and Facebook . But it turn out , Google did n’t want Skype . Not at all , in fact . They even operate so far as to weaken themselves from a possible deal .
Back in 2009 , Google execs , CEO Eric Schmidt include , were concerned in landing Skype from eBay to presumably supplement the not - yet - released Google Voice . But GV merchandise manager Wesley Chan think it was a bad estimate . Skype ’s strength was match - to - peer technology , which Chan termed old technology , and it would n’t fit well with Google ’s desire to own the cloud . That ’s when Chan “ laid the grenade ” to derail the deal .
allot to Chan , he and another friend give-up the ghost to Sergey Brin to convince the Google co - laminitis that buying Skype would be a big misunderstanding . They brainstorm an musical theme to kill the deal in a meeting with all the top Google execs , Chan would praise Skype and then Brin would shut him down by asking questions no one could answer . Wired says :
“ [ Sergey ] looks at me and says , ‘ Why would I want this risk ? We have a squad capable of building the carrier , we have the users , we have C of millions of Gmail users , why do we take to have Skype ? ’ And at that degree , Sergey gets up and says , ‘ This is the mute shit I ’ve ever seen . ’ And Eric gets up and walk out of the room , and I ’m like , okay , the deal ’s off . ”
And poof . No Skype for the Google . Google instead continued its build out of Google Voice and Microsoft just expend $ 8.5 billion today . [ In the PlexviaWired ]
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