Skype’s eventual acquisition by Microsoft is an interesting one. Can anyone contextualize the horse trading that led to that? >September 2005, eBay acquired S

Skype’s eventual acquisition by Microsoft is an interesting one. Can anyone contextualize the horse trading that led to that? >September 2005, eBay acquired Skype for $2.6 billion. In September 2009, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board announced the acquisition of 65% of Skype for $1.9 billion from eBay. Microsoft bought Skype in May 2011 for $8.5 billion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype