安德里森

在安德里森看来，Skype是一块璞玉，一家有史以来少数能产生网络效应的科技公司之一。

To Andreessen , Skype was a potential gem & one of the few great network-effect tech companies ever created .

安德里森本人就是一位科技公司的创始人，他创办了网景（Netscape）和Opsware，同时还是Facebook的董事会成员。此外他也是新生代科技企业家眼中的导师。

Enter Andreessen , himself a founder ( Netscape , Opsware ), an eBay and Facebook board member , and a guru to a new generation of tech entrepreneurs .

到2010年秋天，也就是德班和安德里森收购Skype一年之后，Skype的用户人数已经从一年前的4亿增长到了6亿，而且其视频通话功能的使用率也在上升。

By the fall of 2010 , just a year after the buyout , Skype was surging : users had climbed to 600 million from about 400 million a year earlier & and it saw rising usage of its video calling services .

对于德班、安德里森和贝茨而言，85亿美元的现金实在太诱人了，让人难以拒绝。

For Durban , Andreessen , and Bates , $ 8.5 billion in cash was an offer too good to refuse .