Did Microsoft deliberately kill Skype? Or did Shype die because the World changed?
Here is what happened:
- In 2011, Microsoft acquired Skype for $8.5 Billion!
- In 2015-17: Mobile-first apps like Whatsapp, Messenger, Telegram gained popularity
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Vishu Bheda
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Medial • 1m
Skype didn’t die—Microsoft sidelined it. The tech worked, but they pushed Teams instead, and people moved on.
Did Microsoft deliberately kill Skype? Or did Shype die because the World changed?
Here is what happened:
- In 2011, Microsoft acquired Skype for $8.5 Billion!
- In 2015-17: Mobile-first apps like Whatsapp, Messenger, Telegram gained popularity
Why did GameStop not die like Blockbuster, after the release of online game stores like epic games and steam do people really go to there stores and buy games instead of buying them digitally from the comfort of their home?
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Kritarth Mittal • Soshals
Founder, Soshals | C... • 3m
> born in India
> grew up in a middle-class family
> did btech from srm chennai
> started his career at microsoft
> built windows azure
> filed multiple patents
> moved to facebook
> lead multiple $1 billion+ businesses
> created & scaled facebook a
Yesterday Microsoft made history in the Tech world 🌍. They introduced a new firmware called NPU(basically an au on you processor)
And more crazy thing was the comparison
done with the M3 MacBook Air 💻.
The world is moving so fast but people
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Sarthak Sharma
Investor Relations M... • 1y
I'm building a one-stop solution for corporate travel and offsite management.
Simply put- Better Navan.com (TripActions) for India.
A simple tech tool that seamlessly helps you manage end to end corporate travel and offsites- right from booking to
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AprameyaAI • 9m
How Telegram Crushed It with Just <100 People
→ Size isn't everything 🌚💀 . Motivation and work is.
Chaliye shuru karte hai!
The Telegram tale:
• <100 employees
• 1 billion users
• Outmaneuvering tech behemoths
How they did it:
1. Lean machine
I've a Tech startup idea. Help me to validate.
A platform where people come to improve their communication skills.
Hear is the plan.
Instead of AI, a platform where actually people talk to each others, mostly strangers to improve their communica
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Vishu Bheda
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Medial • 2m
Marc Andreessen explains IBM founder Thomas Watson‘s famous “Wild Ducks” program
Big companies often struggle with innovation.
One major reason is complexity—too many layers of management and rigid structures slow things down.
But there’s anothe
Look at this woman.
At 19, she dropped out of college.
Raised millions from the biggest names for her tech company.
Then built a $9 billion empire.
And now she’s in prison.
Here’s is the story of the greatest Silicon Valley disaster:
Elizabeth
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Monica Shahi
Co-founder at Storef... • 4m
A follow on to yesterday's story on what we did :
We shut down our fancy office and moved to a shop like godown setup which costed us only 8k a month from a wooping 35k. 😭 (Dayum I cried because even though It was small we did put our heart and sou