Niklas is a Swedish citizen born in 1966, with dual degrees in business and MSc Engineering Physics, 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)
Engadget Interview with Niklas Zennström (http://features.engadget.com/entry/2635319328796286/)
Zennstrom, who seems to relish being underestimated, is neither a stereotypical underground hacker nor a nerdy geek.
Zennstrom's gift, say those who have followed his career, is his ability to pinpoint the industries most vulnerable to attack.
Zennstrom said his goal was not to replace Napster, which was under legal siege and ultimately shut down for facilitating the pirating of copyrighted music.
Niklas served 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, the world’s most downloaded Internet software to date with more than 350 million downloads.
Niklas also co-founded Altnet, the world’s first secure p2p network promoting commercial content to millions of consumers and integrating the full value chain of promotion, distribution, and payment of digital content, including being the worlds largest issuer of DRM licenses.
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