Skype Founder Entrepreneur: Entrepreneur Is A Way Of Life.

Beijing time November 8th news, online magazine reporter David Rowan recently interviewed.

Think back to technology companies that change people's lives, probably because they are in the United States.

Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft and apple are all closely related to the digital economy of the United States.

It is much faster than Europe's manufacturing of billionaires through banks.

Niklas Zennstrom, founder of Skype, is a special case. He is not in the United States on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, Nicklas.

Not only did he set up Skype, but in 2005, eBay bought it for $3 billion 100 million, and later founded the P2P software Kazaa that changed the industry, launched the video service Joost, now operates an investment company Atomico, raising $165 million.

He is 44 years old. He was born in Switzerland and has a fortune of 320 million pounds.

Recently, I spent an afternoon with zhenszhuang and learned something from him.

1, very hard.

When an enterprise becomes successful, it seems to be overnight, but no one knows that you have invested in months and years, and all of your previous projects have failed.

2, you should not be afraid of failure. Some things fail, you think about it.

"What should I learn from that experience? I can do better next time."

Then cut off the project and move on.

Never say die.

3, many times, you are the only one who believes in what you are doing.

All the people around you will say, "why don't you give up? Don't you see it doesn't work?" and then you'll look for it to see if others are right or you are right? Skype spent a year in financing: I went to 26 different VC companies, and wanted to raise 1 million 500 thousand euros, ready to give up 1/3 of the company.

But no one wants to invest.

4, smart and dedicated people around you to build a thing is not a person's self show.

It is important that you have smart people who believe in you. It is more important than having practical experience but not sharing your dreams with you.

5, before you spend money on an enterprise, try to prove that people are really interested in your product.

Try your mother, your sister, and your friends - at first I tested them.

6, globalization thinking.

If you don't think big, chances are you can't get bigger.

From the first day, we were convinced that Skype would become an international company. We had branch offices with Luxemburg. We had developers in Estonia, and we moved to London.

The Internet has no borders.

7, if you want to become a person

8, if you get married, your partner should enter.

When we started Kazaa and Skype at the same time, my wife's wages could support us.

It would be more difficult to have children.

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9, for me, money is a driving force. It is also a driving force for changing something and creating something.

Prove to the world that you can do something real.

If you are driven by money, you can hardly create it.

10, there is no entrepreneur in my family. My parents are teachers.

When I was in school in Switzerland, it was very early, and one day I suddenly wanted to have my own company because it was a real way to make money.

I want to prove to others and prove to myself that I can build some big guys.

11, do not give up because of some resistance.

We don't need to raise money, but we still go through the financial turmoil and raise 165 million US dollars.

12, once you succeed, people will listen to you more.

You get more serious treatment.

People expect your next thing to succeed immediately, which will make everything even more difficult.

Just because you have a success doesn't mean you can have another one.

13, I did a lot of charity.

I don't feel obligated to do so, but I am interested in environmental and climate change.

That's worth it.

14, with success, you have the ability to motivate people.

To a certain extent, I am a social celebrity because it comes from work.

I am very comfortable about it.

15. Britain is the best country in Europe.

But it will attract entrepreneurs to migrate here again. I think David Cameron, the leader of the Conservative Party of England, should recondition. When I first came here, I found that tax collection can not be as high as an option. If all the benefits are used to build things, then relief should be reduced. You can not reduce taxes.

16, of course, there will be jealousy, but you must manage it well, I do not think this is a big problem.