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| He started his professional career at the European telecom operator ]. Niklas went on to serve in various business development roles including launching and being responsible for European Internet Service Provider business get2net and as ] of the everyday.com portal. Niklas later co-founded and served as CEO of KaZaA. | He started his professional career at the European telecom operator ]. Niklas went on to serve in various business development roles including launching and being responsible for European Internet Service Provider business get2net and as ] of the everyday.com portal. Niklas later co-founded and served as CEO of KaZaA. | ||
| After KaZaA was sold to ], Zennström founded and served as CEO at Joltid, a software company developing and marketing |
After KaZaA was sold to ], Zennström founded and served as CEO at Joltid, a software company developing and marketing peer-to-peer solutions and peer-to-peer traffic optimization technologies to companies. | ||
| Zennström also co-founded ], the world’s first secure p2p network promoting commercial content to consumers which integrates promotion, distribution, and payment of digital content. | Zennström also co-founded ], the world’s first secure p2p network promoting commercial content to consumers which integrates promotion, distribution, and payment of digital content. | ||
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Niklas Zennström, born 1966, 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.
He has 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 peer-to-peer solutions and peer-to-peer 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, together with partner Janus Friis, Skype, an Internet telephony company based on peer-to-peer principles, has recently been sold to eBay for Euro 2.6 billion. The purchase closed on October 14, 2005.
Zennström was named in Time Magazine's 2006 list of 100 most influential people.