Au rayon ma #startup deviendra grande, l’étrange histoire de Skype.
“How can they be so good?”: The strange story of #Skype | Ars Technica via @opironet
▻http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/09/skypes-secrets
On August 29, 2003, Skype went live for the first time. By 2012, according to Telegeography, Skype accounted for a whopping 167 billion minutes of cross-border voice and video calling in a year—which itself was a stunning 44 percent growth over 2011. That increase in minutes was “more than twice that achieved by all international carriers in the world, combined.” That is to say, Skype today poses a serious threat to the largest telcos on the planet. It also made Jaan Tallinn and other early Skypers rich.
