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. – Niklas Zennstrom
You shouldnt 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. Dont get disappointed. – Niklas Zennstrom
And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more. – Niklas Zennstrom
As an investor, what were not looking for is oh this is a cool app, its is this something that can become a big business? You need to find those that can become real businesses. – Niklas Zennstrom
I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought. Just complete stillness. Sometimes when I go for walks, theres also complete stillness; theres no mental labeling of sense perceptions. Theres simply a sense of awe or wonder or openness, and thats beautiful. – Eckhart Tolle