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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. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#build #business #business model #company #did

Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#communicate #easiest #easy #enough #family

Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way. If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#cheapest #communicate #easiest #easy #enough

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

— Niklas Zennstrom

#block #city #just #just one #pop

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

— Niklas Zennstrom

#downloaded #internet #more #more and more #most

We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#countries #million #more #than #users

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. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#any #connected #countries #day #each

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. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#compare #just #network #number #people

May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#because #cannot #early #fast #makes

My fingers used to hurt really bad when I played guitar. I stopped because of it. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#because #fingers #guitar #hurt #i