Icahn Vs. Andreessen: Battle Royale

Icahn Vs. Andreessen: Battle Royale Icahn Vs. Andreessen: Battle Royale | TechCrunch Why can't Carl Icahn and Marc Andreessen? get along? Icahn, the billionaire activist investor, has been pushing? eBay to spin out its PayPal division, while Andreessen --... More

Icahn Vs. Andreessen: Battle Royale Icahn Vs. Andreessen: Battle Royale | TechCrunch Why can't Carl Icahn and Marc Andreessen? get along? Icahn, the billionaire activist investor, has been pushing? eBay to spin out its PayPal division, while Andreessen -- acting in his capacity as a director on eBay's board -- is siding with the eBay chief executive against the PayPal spinout. So Icahn has been attacking Andreessen and fellow board member Scott Cook, Intuit founder, in an effort to get them booted from the eBay board. The argument, which Icahn keeps hammering, is that Andreessen's day job as a venture capitalist and Cook's position as a prominent tech exec, raise conflicts of interest that cannot be sufficiently addressed. One of Icahn's chief concerns is Andreessen's alleged involvement in the sale of Skype to a consortium of private equity investors that included Andreessen Horowitz. In a letter issued to eBay shareholders Monday, Icahn again called for eBay to come forward with a fu Less