Tim Draper
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah, terrific.
Yeah, actually, I guess you're supposed to have six letters or more now.
But yeah, I'm Tim at Skype.
We were thrilled with that investment.
The Skype founders and I did a
Fun thing.
I actually was in the first Skype video call ever.
What year was that?
Boy, a long time ago.
And we used their alpha system to do it.
And it wasn't quite...
ready or anything.
But the first Skype video call, they cut off 100,000 simultaneous audio users in order to get the bandwidth for our video to work.
It was quite a fun experiment.
I apologize for anybody who was on a phone call at that time.
Oh boy, I don't even remember.
It was a couple of different investments of different sizes, and the return was big.
I like it.
The return was big.
It sold for $4 billion to eBay at that time.