Skype founders’ lost sense of reality

Today the breaking news in the tech industry was that the Skype founders sued eBay for patent infringement in the U.S. for the astonishing amount of 75 million USD per day. Now that eBay decided to sell Skype to another consortium of investors instead of the Skype founders, it looks like they went wild and pulled the trigger on what they must have been already using as a pressure point against eBay for quite some time.

Personally, I really do not care much about the full story behind all this, or whether this claim has any merit or not. What puzzles me much more is that these guys, after they made a killing selling Skype for 3 bn USD are now suing the exact same company that made them stinking rich. Maybe I am not enough of a hard core  take-it-all-when-you-can business guy, but actually I rather feel sorry for them as they seem to have lost touch with reality. In fact I once had very high respect for them as one of the only really BIG European tech startup success stories, but I have lost that respect entirely now. I guess the bottom line lesson learned here must be that money does not necessarily make people happy .

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