Everyone is talking about the eBay acquisition of Skype. $2.6 billion!
eBay has a 80-page document on their investor information pages which goes over this acquisition in detail. It’s a good read just to understand how the company is explaining an acquisition of this size.
Folks on Slashdot think that the Skype acquisition is more important for Paypal than for eBay. Either way, it looks like this was an important acquisition to insure growth of eBay and to decrease friction between buyers and sellers in their system.
Bessemer Venture Partners’ David Cowan, who writes the Who Has Time for This weblog, tells us that the first VC was Rob Stavis who led the A round. Stavis’ multiple? About 150X.