The secondary organizational impacts of EBay’s acquisition of Skype are about to be felt, I’ve heard. Following Rajiv Dutta’s appointment as President, three new senior VP level people will be coming into the organization: Finance, US Operations, and API/Commerce solutions. It seems that Skype’s culture is undergoing a swift change from being disruptive punks to a business oriented "show me the money" culture. Unsurprising, since the earnout requires more than a billion dollars in revenue from Skype by 2008.
The coming Skype Reorg: you read it here first.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry maker Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
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