I had the opportunity to listen to Niklas Zennstrom this afternoon. He’s currently a Partner at Atomico Ventures (his VC fund) but he’s well-known as the founder of Kazaa, Skype and Joost. I wrote about Joost and Zennstrom recently. He talked about entrepreneurship, his own personal failures and successes and the European scene. As [...]
Seeing Niklas Zennstrom’s name on LeWeb’s list of speakers along with the news that Joost’s assets were being acquired by Adconion Media Group got me thinking about the dynamics of that specific startup. Joost was founded in 2006 to build a online video portal with the core idea that [...]
Yesterday the end came to the Skype / JoltID lawsuit. Skype co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström have taken a 14% stake in the company, Index Ventures and Mike Volpi got the boot, and Skype users all across the world breathed a sigh of relief.
One thing that was [...]
