Niklas Zennstrom

“If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The Chinese market is very, very unique.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways.”

“Surround yourself with smart, dedicated people - to build something isn't a one-man show. It's more important to have smart people who really believe in what you're doing than really experienced people who may not share your dream.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Angry Birds is one of the fastest-growing online products I've seen, growing even faster than Skype, and the company has done a brilliant job of extending it across different platforms and merchandise.”

“The next Google or Facebook will come from somewhere other than Silicon Valley.”

“People need to access Skype wirelessly, no matter where they are, and what happens is that we'll be taking advantage of the rollout of Internet everywhere - WiFi and WiMax in particular.”

“The thing about the Internet is the openness. People can link to each other themselves.”

“Today as an entrepreneur you have more options.”

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