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Originally Posted by spaceman Bryce
No i don't use skype. What is skype?
Easy, free way to text/call eachother via internet. Developed by Danish guy Janus Friis back in ~2000 while he was living with his parents. Sold it to eBay in 2005 for ~$1.6billion and made a young Danish guy a pretyyr penny
. Microsoft bought for ~$11billion in 2011 who know what it's worth now.
Info people outside Denmark probably didn't know. Before Janus sold it, it had become a company consisting of several people that where mostly his friends from school. When he sold, he obiviously took a good chunk himself (~30%) he could have taken it all. The rest of it he devided out between all employees right down to the cleaning personel. It was a big thing in Danish news at the time, he was 100% open about the sale, encouraging other companies to do the same. There were cleaning ladies/janitors etc. on tv telling how they got millions/many millions when the company was sold. His reason being; everyone in a corporation, no matter how big it gets, is important. Since then he has gone on to make/invest in other companies with the same mentallity. He's pretty much a god in Denmark. When there's a job opening in one of his companies, needless to say he gets 1000's of applications.