If Silicon Valley were a bar, Marc Andreessen might be asking Carl Icahn to step outside. Icahn is targeting Andreessen, an EBay board member, along with Chief Executive Officer John Donahue and board member Scott Cook, as part of his campaign to persuade the auction company to sell its PayPal electronic payments unit. In open letters to EBay shareholders, Icahn has accused Andreessen of "clear and insurmountable" conflicts in two deals. In 2009, Andreessen's firm, Andreessen Horowitz, was part of a group of investors that bought a majority stake in Internet calling service Skype from EBay in a deal that valued Skype at $2.75 billion. Two years later, Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 billion. (Bloomberg LP, parent of Bloomberg BusinessWeek, is an investor in Andreessen Horowitz.)
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