Hakaku Posted April 18, 2009 Report Posted April 18, 2009 Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, Jaan Tallinn and Toivo Annus, who developed the program under the vision of Swede Niklas Zennstrom and Dane Janus Friis in 2002, will soon head the list of Estonian millionaires after the sale of Skype to eBay has been completed.The article was written on November 9th, 2005. Skype was sold for $2.6 billion. Include his other involvements such as Kazaa and ASI, he must already be there, or be pretty close to it.
»Lynx Posted April 18, 2009 Report Posted April 18, 2009 I'd still bet they're very far off billionaire status.
Chambahs Posted April 19, 2009 Report Posted April 19, 2009 Actually, i had a telephone conversation with someone, (good source), that if you take the amount of money priitk has, and turn it into USD, it would convert into a high hundreds of millions, im pretty sure hes got some stashed in his mattress. So, yea.
»Lynx Posted April 19, 2009 Report Posted April 19, 2009 Ehrm, I don't want to jump the gun here... But isn't Priit from Estonia... Therefore, wouldn't his currency be EEK? Therefore, 1000EEK ~= 83.3USD... And 1Bn EEK = 83.3M USD... But then again, I don't know about Priit's currency affairs, I'm just pretty sure that he won't be a multibillionaire (i.e. money that is safe, that he owns) from Kazaa etc, however he's probably a millionaire, maybe multimillionaire. Also, Priit doesn't own Kazaa anymore, and when he did it wasn't exactly something that generated millions in direct income (as it does now with membership fee's etc). I'm pretty sure that as he left it, he left it at it's downfall period, and it's worth isn't even comparable to Skype. For all of the legal hassle Kazaa had, just check the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazaa Sure, there's Joost, Skype and ASI - but multibillionaire (in safe money)... Really doubt that. -Lynx
Chambahs Posted April 19, 2009 Report Posted April 19, 2009 Multi bilionaire, no way, multi millionaire, yes.
Hakaku Posted April 19, 2009 Report Posted April 19, 2009 Actually, Priit left Kazaa right before it started getting into a big legal mess, and went to work on Skype, so it's unlikely that he was affected monetarily by any of those issues. Btw, that article I quoted listed all currencies in USD, not EEK, so millionaire really did mean millionaire by american standards. Is Priit a millionaire? Probable at this point. Is he a multimillionaire? Can't say for sure. Is he a multibillionaire? No, because Skype only sold for 2.6billion, so there's no way Priit could have ever achieved that point.
darkhosis Posted April 22, 2009 Report Posted April 22, 2009 I played from just before they dropped the "sniper" name until 2000 or so. I ran a news site called "news.txt" for most of that period. Anyone around from back then?yeah, you used to play a lot of turf zone i am pretty sure you played after 2000, though. unless it really has been that long
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