{"id":5935,"date":"2007-10-01T13:53:42","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T13:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/zennstrom-no-longer-skype-ceo.html"},"modified":"2007-10-01T13:53:42","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T13:53:42","slug":"zennstrom-no-longer-skype-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/zennstrom-no-longer-skype-ceo.html","title":{"rendered":"Zennstrom no Longer Skype CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt; COLOR: #333333\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt; COLOR: #333333\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/images.tmcnet.com\/it-magazine\/october-2006\/100voices-picts\/niklas-zennstrom-skype.jpg\" \/>I just noticed Greg Galitzine wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/greg-galitzine\/voip\/zennstrom-out-as-ceo-of-skype.html\">Niklas Zennstrom stepping down as Skype&rsquo;s CEO<\/a>. will become non-executive chairman of the Skype Board of Directors. Michael van Swaaij, eBay&#8217;s Chief Strategy Officer, will become acting CEO until a permanent successor is found.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt; COLOR: #333333\">In my last conversation with Zennstrom in spring of this year he had a definite sparkle in his eyes when he spoke about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/snapshots\/snapshots.aspx?Company=Joost\">Joost<\/a>. He also seemed excited about the possibilities of Skype and Joost interoperating.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt; COLOR: #333333\">He mentioned at the time that Joost management was handling the company and didn&rsquo;t need his day to day management.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt; COLOR: #333333\">I wonder if this move was made to allow Zennstrom to spend more time on Joost, with his family or to do something altogether new. Either way, congratulations are definitely in order as eBay paid another $530 million to settle its future earn out obligations. Sure, this is not the $1.7 billion it could have been but half a billion is nothing to sneeze at.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt; COLOR: #333333\">Om Malik has <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2007\/10\/01\/static-on-skype-zennstrom-quits\/\">more<\/a> on this story and some differing points of view.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just noticed Greg Galitzine wrote about Niklas Zennstrom stepping down as Skype&rsquo;s CEO. will become non-executive chairman of the Skype Board of Directors. Michael van Swaaij, eBay&#8217;s Chief Strategy Officer, will become acting CEO until a permanent successor is found. &nbsp; In my last conversation with Zennstrom in spring of this year he had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,172,199,203,118,190,191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}