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900m revenue or profit? The article only mentioned Skype "is on track to take in more than $600 million in revenue this year." If Skype is a low margin busine
by immad 17y ago
900m revenue or profit?
The article only mentioned Skype "is on track to take in more than $600 million in revenue this year."
If Skype is a low margin business than the profits might be very low. Given that they have such competitive pricing I can't imagine they have that high a margin.
- pclark 17y agowasn't it designed to be low overheads? eg: the P2P system for bandwidth, over having to pay their own server infrastructure.
- pclark 17y agojust read this on reddit [http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/9g3ml/ebay_sells_skype_for_2_billion/c0cncfw http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/9g3ml/ebay_sells...]: > was on a team that looked at buying Skype 2.5 years ago. The company was making only $0.19 per user per year at that time (ARPU) and bleeding to death. $2.0 billion is an insanely high figure to pay for Skype - not sure how this investor group is going to recover their money