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Niklas Zennstrom

Niklas Zennström (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈnɪklas ˌsɛnˈstrœm] ( listen); born 16 February 1966) 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.

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Today as an entrepreneur you have more options.

Entrepreneur, Today, Options

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

Broadband, Connections, Internet, Skype

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

Century, Charging, Phones, Technology, Time, Years

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

Ebay, People, Today, Million, Living

Angry Birds is one of the fastest-growing online products I've seen, growing even faster than Skype, and the company has done a brilliant job of extending it across different platforms and merchandise.

Across, Bird, Different, Jobs, Platforms, Products

It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don't pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that.

Google, Internet, Like, Money, Pay

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

Financial, Financial Investment, Hope, Investment

It's extremely hard to build a company with a product that everyone loves, is free and has no business model, and then to innovate a business model. I did that with Kazaa, had half a billion downloads but that wasn't a sustainable business.

Love Is, Half, One Love, Everyone, Model

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

Internet, Links, Openness, People, Thing

With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.

Longer, Multimedia, Phones, Powerful, Sense, Work

Look for when the environment is changing - the big shift now is mobile Internet. It's really happening big-time. The way you interact with services on a smart phone compared to the Web is quite different, so there's a huge opportunity.

Big, Look, Mobile, Opportunity, Phones, Smart

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

Anywhere, Block, Cities, Pop, World

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

Come, Google, Next, Silicon, Valley, Valleys

People need to access Skype wirelessly, no matter where they are, and what happens is that we'll be taking advantage of the rollout of Internet everywhere - WiFi and WiMax in particular.

Everywhere, Matter, Needs, Particular, People, Skype

Some Internet operators are concerned that video services such as Netflix and YouTube consume lots of the bandwidth on the network. While there is some truth to this, my guess is that the operators wished they could provide the same kind of services with the same success as Netflix and YouTube.

Guess, Kind, Netflix, Operators, Video, Wished

If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm - last thing at night you'll send emails, first thing in the morning you'll read emails, and you'll wake up in the middle of the night. But it's hugely rewarding as you're fulfilling something for yourself.

Inspirational, Morning, Jobs, Rewarding, Lifestyle, Forget

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

Computer, Efficiently, Ends, Resources, Things, Users

We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.

Numbers, People, World, Number, Skype, Starting

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

Downloaded, Internet, People, Software

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.

Google, Trying, Looks, Big, Hard, Obvious

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