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

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?...

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

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.

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

We also have a conference call feature where up to five people can talk on one Skype call.

I’m convinced over time, all voice communication will migrate to the Internet.

Skype is for any individual who has a broadband Internet connection.

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.

They also can combine voice with instant messaging and online file sharing.

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

We want to make talking over the Internet the most natural, simple thing for people all over the world to do – no matter which computer they use.

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

But that technology enabled the movie industry to make much more revenue. The single largest revenue source for the movie industry is videos.

If you want to be an entrepreneur, it’s not a job, it’s a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm – last thing at night you’ll send emails, first...

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...

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

Tom had implemented a text filter, which is what everyone else in that market is doing. Those are the regulations.

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

It was more a technical proof of concept that it was possible to transfer files between two end users rather than going through servers.

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...

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.

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.

Yes the calls are free. But you’re paying for the mobile access and that drives usage and something that drives usage is good for the operators.

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

Skype to Skype lets you call anyone else in the world who has downloaded the Skype application on their computer or PDA, for free.

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...

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...

Some Internet operators are concerned that video services such as Netflix and YouTube consume lots of the bandwidth on the network. While there is some truth to this, my guess is that the operators wished...

revolutionize the ease with which people can communicate through the Internet.

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.

We don’t have any launch dates yet for any of those platforms. It’s going to be wonderful to be able to make a Skype call from cell phones or PDAs.

You shouldn’t be afraid of failure – when something fails, you think, ‘What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.’ Then kill that project and move on to the next....

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.

When we started Skype, if you look at analyst reports, no one forecasted it as a big business. Also when Google started, it was not fashionable to be in search. It’s not trying to do...

They are technology freaks and not the kind of guys who seek publicity, but a Vanity Fair shoot in Cannes gives them a broader appeal. We drink beer in the Electric and play pool at...

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...

We have a much higher penetration in countries like Brazil and Poland, where phone rates are high and service is hit or miss in some places.

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It’s time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

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.

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

China is one of our absolutely top markets; it is a big growth market for broadband,

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...

We were founded on Aug. 29, 2003, and now have 70 employees, about half in London and half in Tallinn, Estonia, and some in Luxembourg.

Today as an entrepreneur you have more options.

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.

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.

With the release of our new software, it’s never been easier for people to talk to one another for free, and now they can see each other with video as well.

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.

There are different rumors every day. We don’t comment on rumors. When we make deals, we announce them.