Niklas Zennstrom Quotes

Sweden, Entrepreneur
February 16, 1966

Niklas Zennström (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈnɪklas ²sɛnːstrœm]) is a Swedish billionaire entrepreneur best known for founding several high-profile online ventures with Janus Friis including Skype and Kazaa. More recently he founded the technology investment firm Atomico and has become a significant figurehead for entrepreneurs in the tech sector. Zennström is also the co-founder of the charity organization Zennström Philanthropies.

Also known as Scientist

When a business becomes successful seemingly overnight, no one knows about all the months and years you've invested, all the projects you've tried before that didn't work.

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Today as an entrepreneur you have more options.

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- Entrepreneur
- Options

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

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- Internet
- Openness
- Link
Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way. If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype.

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- Easy
- Skype
- Web browser
Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way.

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

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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.

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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, it was not fashionable to be in search. It's not trying to do the obvious - that's the hard part.

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- Business
- Search
- Part
What we are doing is taking advantage of the broadband Internet to provide basically unlimited free calls to anyone at a higher voice quality than they can with the phone lines.

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

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