Niklas Zennstrom
Niklas Zennstrom
Niklas Zennströmis a Swedish 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...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionScientist
CountrySweden
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We have a much higher penetration in countries like Brazil and Poland, where phone rates are high and service is hit or miss in some places.
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We don't have any launch dates yet for any of those platforms. It's going to be wonderful to be able to make a Skype call from cell phones or PDAs.
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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 voice quality than they can with the phone lines.
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At the office, we actually don't have a land phone line. We use Skype mostly, and mobile phones to receive calls from people not on Skype.
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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.
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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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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.
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People do business in Sweden and it goes well; they may try launching the product in Denmark instead of considering a global business plan. On the financing side, VCs require too much downside protection and are not willing enough to take risks.
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At no charge, if they both have the software installed. Or by using SkypeOut if they need to call a land line or mobile at low rates.
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Yes the calls are free. But you're paying for the mobile access and that drives usage and something that drives usage is good for the operators.
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But that technology enabled the movie industry to make much more revenue. The single largest revenue source for the movie industry is videos.
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revolutionize the ease with which people can communicate through the Internet.
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We want to make talking over the Internet the most natural, simple thing for people all over the world to do - no matter which computer they use.
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China is one of our absolutely top markets; it is a big growth market for broadband,