Skype Reorg Rumblings…
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.
November 26th, 2005 at 12:15 pm
[...] Following my November 22 post on a Skype reorganization being in the works, Andy Abramson posted some more on what he’s been hearing, and then Om Malik and Mark Evans jumped on the story. My take: I’ve been through plenty of big company reorgs, and this is probably a lot like one of those. It can take as long as six months to figure out where all the second order bits are, and what everyone’s new job is. Unfortunately, with Google breathing down their necks, the Skypers are short on time. [...]