Niklas Zennström

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 holds dual degrees in Business Administration and Engineering Physics from Uppsala University in Sweden.

Zennström started his professional career at the European telecom operator Tele2. He went on to serve in various business development roles. Later, he 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's last venture, Skype, has been sold to eBay. He currently works on new peer-to-peer video distribution service called The Venice Project together with his partner Janus Friis.

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