Niklas Zennstrom Quotes (43 quotes)

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„You have 1 billion people using the Internet with 200 million of those now using broadband internet connections, so the Internet has become a powerful network. It can carry calls.“
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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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„When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.“
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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 a pure Internet company such as Joost.“
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„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.“
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„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.“
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„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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„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.“
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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 not successful - it's such a small market.“
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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 a big business?' You need to find those that can become real businesses.“
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„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.“
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„We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries.“
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„They also can combine voice with instant messaging and online file sharing.“
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„The next Google or Facebook will come from somewhere other than Silicon Valley.“
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„The Chinese market is very, very unique.“
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„In fact, we just surpassed our first 1 million simultaneous users online.“
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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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„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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„When we look at investing, we always think about 'how defensible is this, how likely is it that somebody is going to copy this.' E-commerce tends to be something easy to copy because it's execution.“
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„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 users each day. And more than half a million people are connected via Skype at any given moment.“

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Niklas Zennstrom
Author born: November 30, 1965
Nationality: Swedish
Author Profession: Scientist

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