Tanel Erm is the Head of Microsoft Development Centre Estonia and has been with Microsoft/Skype for nearly 20 years. He has held various roles in Engineering as well as Management. Tanel has worked through both the Ebay and the Microsoft acquisitions of Skype and has an exclusive perspective on the much discussed Skype story.

In this episode we talk about:

Tanel’s early journey with Skype
Acquisitions of Skype by Ebay and Microsoft
How Skype lost its dominant position
Challenges of managing distributed teams
How AI is changing product development and running a team/project

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Skype story after Microsoft acquisition, how it is doing now, practical applications of AI & challenges of managing distributed teams w/ Tanel Erm (Microsoft). Ep 136