Marc Andreessen

Auction site eBay has, as long anticipated, sold off the Skype telephony service to a group of investors that includes Marc Andreessen's new Andreessen Horowitz group, Silver Lake, and the Skype co-founders' Joltid Ltd. The investor group now...

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...clearing the way for the deal to close after some very public legal quarrels. As you may remember, Andreessen Horowitz partner Marc Andreessen swiftly deemed Skype one of the most important companies on the Internet after the...

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...was the $58.5 million closed by Andreessen Horowitz, the Menlo Park operation co-founded this summer by Internet wunderkind Marc Andreessen. Maveron will also announce today that Ben Choi, formerly of Menlo Park venture capital firm...

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...of conflicts). The web of relationships in the Skype saga is dense. Danny Rimer was the underwriting analyst for Netscape, where Marc Andreessen began his career. Mr. Volpi and Charles Giancarlo, a partner and key figure in the deal at...

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...can therefore concentrate on its own growth prospects. "It puts you in a different mindset," said Marc Andreessen, a co-founder of investment firm Andreessen Horowitz, which will hold a stake in Skype once the deal closes. As an...

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...of using confidential information to orchestrate the deal. "Settlement was the right thing to do," says Marc Andreessen, whose venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz invested along with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in the...

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...Janus Friis will now own a 14% stake in the new Skype. The other new owners are Andreessen Horowitz - run by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen - as well as private equity firm Silver Lake and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.

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...and ends all litigation pending against the investor group and eBay at the closing of the acquisition. Andreessen Horowitz founder Marc Andreessen, who also founded Netscape Communications, said he sees better growth prospects for Skype as a...

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...the Skype founders still controlled the service's underlying peer-to-peer technology. In an interview with me this morning, Marc Andreessen, one of the investors through his new fund Andreessen Horowitz, told me, "The deal was never held...

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...truth, everyone is in for a wild ride. Nobody who does business with the Skype founders ever seems to come out of it happy. Maybe Marc Andreessen has the patience to change all that this time around. Just one problem, though. No one has...

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