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" When a business becomes successful seemingly overnight, no one knows about all the months and years you've invested, all the projects you've tried before that didn't work. "
Niklas Zennstrom
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" The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century. "
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" And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more. "
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" If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype. "
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" Some Internet operators are concerned that video services such as Netflix and YouTube consume lots of the bandwidth on the network. While there is some truth to this, my guess is that the operators wished they could provide the same kind of services with the same success as Netflix and YouTube. "
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" I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date. "
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" Look for when the environment is changing - the big shift now is mobile Internet. It's really happening big-time. The way you interact with services on a smart phone compared to the Web is quite different, so there's a huge opportunity. "
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