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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Skype to Skype lets you call anyone else in the world who has downloaded the Skype application on their computer or PDA, for free.
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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.
In fact, we just surpassed our first 1 million simultaneous users online.
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We also have a conference call feature where up to five people can talk on one Skype call.
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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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The thing about the Internet is the openness. People can link to each other themselves.
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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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Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.