{"id":292,"date":"2005-09-12T16:00:42","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T23:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/12\/skypes-success\/"},"modified":"2005-09-12T16:00:42","modified_gmt":"2005-09-12T23:00:42","slug":"skypes-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/12\/skypes-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype&#8217;s success"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p> LONDON&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;Sept. 12, 2005&#8211;eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY)(www.ebay.com) has agreed to acquire Luxembourg-based Skype Technologies SA, the global Internet communications company, for approximately $2.6 billion in up-front cash and eBay stock, plus potential performance-based consideration<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Skype had been privately held.<br \/>\nFrom working stiff to <strong>b<\/strong>illionaire, overnight*.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>*If, by &#8220;overnight&#8221;, you mean: innovating, struggling and slaving for without any solid goal in mind for several years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;Sept. 12, 2005&#8211;eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY)(www.ebay.com) has agreed to acquire Luxembourg-based Skype Technologies SA, the global Internet communications company, for approximately $2.6 billion in up-front cash and eBay stock, plus potential performance-based consideration Skype had been privately held. From working stiff to billionaire, overnight*. . *If, by &#8220;overnight&#8221;, you mean: innovating, struggling and slaving for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}