It's extremely hard to build a company with a product that everyone loves, is free and has no business model, and then to innovate a business model. I did that with Kazaa, had half a billion downloads but that wasn't a sustainable business.
Niklas ZennstromAs an investor, what we're not looking for is 'oh this is a cool app,' it's 'is this something that can become a big business?' You need to find those that can become real businesses.
Niklas ZennstromThen people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.
Niklas Zennstrom