Niklas Zennstrom

Today, over one million people now make their living on eBay, which is astounding.

— Niklas Zennstrom

We also have a conference call feature where up to five people can talk on one Skype call.

— Niklas Zennstrom

The thing about the Internet is the openness. People can link to each other themselves.

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Today as an entrepreneur you have more options.

— Niklas Zennstrom

I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date.

— Niklas Zennstrom

If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle.

— Niklas Zennstrom

As an entrepreneur, if you're the originator, you need to be faster than ever.

— Niklas Zennstrom

In fact, we just surpassed our first 1 million simultaneous users online.

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International markets are much bigger than the U.S. In Sweden we have 9 million inhabitants, and if you're successful in Sweden, you're…

— Niklas Zennstrom

When a business becomes successful seemingly overnight, no one knows about all the months and years you've invested, all the projects you've…

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People need to access Skype wirelessly, no matter where they are, and what happens is that we'll be taking advantage of the…

— Niklas Zennstrom

And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.

— Niklas Zennstrom

We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries.

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As an investor, what we're not looking for is 'oh this is a cool app,' it's 'is this something that can become…

— Niklas Zennstrom

Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want…

— Niklas Zennstrom

We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries. We're getting 80,000 new…

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When we started Skype, if you look at analyst reports, no one forecasted it as a big business. Also when Google started,…

— Niklas Zennstrom

When we look at investing, we always think about 'how defensible is this, how likely is it that somebody is going to…

— Niklas Zennstrom

Look for when the environment is changing - the big shift now is mobile Internet. It's really happening big-time. The way you…

— Niklas Zennstrom

You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do…

— Niklas Zennstrom

Surround yourself with smart, dedicated people - to build something isn't a one-man show. It's more important to have smart people who…

— Niklas Zennstrom

Some Internet operators are concerned that video services such as Netflix and YouTube consume lots of the bandwidth on the network. While…

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Angry Birds is one of the fastest-growing online products I've seen, growing even faster than Skype, and the company has done a…

— Niklas Zennstrom

If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going…

— Niklas Zennstrom

Talent can pop up anywhere in the world, it's not just one city block,

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The next Google or Facebook will come from somewhere other than Silicon Valley.

— Niklas Zennstrom

The Chinese market is very, very unique.

— Niklas Zennstrom

If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype.

— Niklas Zennstrom

Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways.

— Niklas Zennstrom

Skype is for any individual who has a broadband Internet connection.

— Niklas Zennstrom

They also can combine voice with instant messaging and online file sharing.

— Niklas Zennstrom

Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.

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Video is moving online in a big way. It's proven to be a challenging market for some companies that start out as…

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If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.

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We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around…

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The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

— Niklas Zennstrom

You have 1 billion people using the Internet with 200 million of those now using broadband internet connections, so the Internet has…

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What we are doing is taking advantage of the broadband Internet to provide basically unlimited free calls to anyone at a higher…

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When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music…

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I try not to dwell on big mistakes but to move on when I make a mistake. I make mistakes most of…

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