Slide 2 Story of Tiit Paananen, former GM of Skype Estonia Slide
3 Challenge 67ms one way delay in vacuum 102 ms delay in fiber +
45-65 ms delay by global IP backbone + ?? ms delay by local ISP +
Jitter, packetloss 20.000 km C=299 792 458 m/s ITU-T G.114 Max
150ms one way delay Slide 4 Skype vision Slide 3 The global
communications tool that billions of people rely on every day for
sharing experiences, from living room to boardroom Slide 5 40
PERCENT Of the total of all global International PSTN and Skype
calling minutes 60+ MILLION Users online at peak times 360 MILLION
Users at 100 minutes per month 50 PERCENT Of Skype Calls &
Video 2 BILLION Minutes of voice and video in one day Slide 6 Where
is Skype? Tallinn & Tartu Prague Stockholm Luxemburg London
Moscow Tokyo New York Palo Alto Singapore Hong Kong Redmond Slide 7
Tony Bates as CEO TIMELINE eBay buys Skype for 2.6B $ Silverlake
buys Skype 2.75B $ MS buys Skype for 8.5B $ skype.com registered
Millions of users online Michael Van Swaaij as CEO Josh Silverman
as CEO Dan Berg as CTO Mark Gillett as CTO Skype prepares for IPO
Slide 8 Beginnings Most hired through networks Hire attitude,
skills can be learned No bullshit mgmt style Work hard play hard
Being disruptive unites Slide 9 Culture and principles We fly so
you dont have to I dont know if I am good enough to be here We cant
screw this up, we cant let each other down Fake it until you make
it Eat your own dogfood Skype is the best thing that can happen to
you professionally Slide 10 Culture and principles We are working
with smartest people We are working in best environment possible
Quality is built in You are on the bus or off the bus You might not
like how things are but you love Skype Slide 11 Competition Vonage,
WeChat, QQ, Whazzup, Viber, Snapchat, Facebook, Gtalk, Facetime,
ooVoo, Jitsi, VoxOx, goober, Ekiga, etc Telecoms on one side and
new startups with established internet companies on the other side
have kept Skype sharp on its mission Slide 12 How Skype works?
Product = one independently releasable delivery unit of software
Cross functional product teams with maturity level tracking. Using
SCRUM working from the top of backlog ordered by ROI Fast release
cycle Quality built in Slide 13 Values Honest Fast Disruptive Make
mistakes User centric Fun Every company has values to assist
everyone in decision making and making the potential bigger then
the sum of parts ? Slide 14 Skype cultural elements We are product
engineering led We are truly global We solve for a dynamic world
(and convert to ideas to users quickly) We put users at the heart
of our decision making Slide 15 Back then and now Regular Telephony
Standard Def Voice over IP High Def Slide 16 Back then and now 240p
2005 480p 2007 720p 2010 1080p 2011 Slide 17 Missed opportunities
Still one revenue stream Mobile opportunity Social network
explosion Developer ecosystem Slide 18 Main takeaways from Skype
story Its can happen everywhere Networks matter Success lies in an
ability to work across timezones and cultures Hiring right people
is everything Not good enough I have seen what good looks like We
were lucky and its probably will never repeat exactly like this
Slide 19 First Decade of #SkypeMafia Slide 20 Slide 21 Tartu
University (TU)Tallinn University of Technology (TUT) Participating
Universities Slide 22 Masters: Cyber Security (TUT) english
Computer and Systems Engineering (TUT) english Software Engineering
(UT) english Computer Science (UT) Bachelors: Informatics (TUT);
Computer Science (UT) Slide 23 Thanks
