I wouldn't normally blog on Skype staff changes, however Andy broke the news and I realised I had a couple of slides that telll a story and reflect the work that Kelly certainly was a key part of framing. As slides only date now seems like a good time to just put them out there. They simply tie back to every PR announcement made up to the time eBay purchased Skype. The data remains here on the Skype site.

Kelly Larabee, the PR queen who over the past few years did a incredible job building up Skype with the media, analysts and bloggers has left Skype as of today. VoIP Watch

Other startups would do well to take some learnings from the Skype example. I won't spell out all the learning here.