Niklas Zennstrom

Another differentiator is that Skype is free and simple to set up, and it costs us virtually nothing for a new user to join the Skype network, which is why we can offer the service for free. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#costs #free #join #network #new

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

— Niklas Zennstrom

#ever #faster #need #originator #than

As an investor, what we're not looking for is 'oh this is a cool app,' it's 'is this something that can become a big business?' You need to find those that can become real businesses. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#big #big business #business #businesses #cool

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

— Niklas Zennstrom

#best #date #financial #hope #i

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

— Niklas Zennstrom

#skype #use #web #you

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

— Niklas Zennstrom

#could #efficiently #end #more #much

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

— Niklas Zennstrom

#first #in fact #just #million #online

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 not successful - it's such a small market. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#inhabitants #international #market #markets #million

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. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#click #companies #go #google #internet

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

— Niklas Zennstrom

#did #ever #industry #more #movie