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Niklas Zennström is a Swedish entrepreneur. He is the founder of the KaZaA peer-to-peer file sharing network and Skype peer-to-peer internet telephony network.
Background
Niklas is a Swedish citizen born in 1966, with dual degrees in Business Administration and Engineering Physics (MSc, computer science) from Uppsala University in Sweden. He spent his final year at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Career
He started his professional career at the European telecom operator Tele2. Niklas went on to serve in various business development roles including launching and being responsible for European Internet Service Provider business get2net and as CEO of the everyday.com portal. Niklas later co-founded and served as CEO of KaZaA.
After KaZaA was sold to Sharman Networks, Zennström founded and served as CEO at Joltid, a software company developing and marketing p2p solutions and p2p traffic optimization technologies to companies.
Zennström also co-founded Altnet, the world’s first secure p2p network promoting commercial content to consumers which integrates promotion, distribution, and payment of digital content.
Zennström’s newest venture is Skype, an Internet telephony company based on peer-to-peer principles.
External Links
- Zennström at the Skype Founders Page (http://www.skype.com/company/founders.html)
- Contribution to KaZaa and Skype from Jaan Tallinn from Estonia (http://www.aqris.com/?id=1321)