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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q as an art professor, and Sweden, the culture you grew up in, probably encouraged people to Get a job, and then eventually, you know, stay there for 40 years, get a pension, have a nice life, get your six weeks of vacation every year. Um, you were essentially throwing that all away. I mean, did anybody, your dad, or your mom, or anybody say, this is not a good idea?
A Yeah. To be honest, I did not consult my parents. I informed them. Um, I think they always, like, believed in me and trusted my decisions. Um, But, I think it was an interesting conversation I had with my wife, because we had just moved to Amsterdam, we were there for a year, uh, a nice place to live, and I said, hey, I told her, you know what, I think, I really think I'm gonna, uh, quit my job and start a company. And, and, and she was the one then who actually, you know, told me, I think you should do it, because I don't want, when we're older, I don't want you to tell me, I wish that I tried to become an entrepreneur. So she was probably more like, go out and do it, get it out of your system, and then you figure it out.
AI assessment note: “To be honest, I did not consult my parents. I informed them.”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q It just stopped because you couldn't pay the Estonian developers. How did you, I mean, as you, as you Sort of started to run out of money in the summer of 2003. What did you do? Are you just dialing anybody you could to, to, to, to see if you could get money?
A Yeah, so we, we, we went around in Europe, we went to kind of all the VCs, and we tried to raise money, and were unsuccessful, and we thought that these VCs, they are, they don't get it, and the model for European VCs at the time was to invest in a copycat of a U.S. internet company, And use the language barrier as a, as a moat. So you kind of was really smart to invest in say a German copycat of eBay because eBay would probably buy them or, or a Nordic version of, of, uh, Amazon. That was the model pretty much. And we had this like plan. We're going to change global telephony using peer to peer technology, which no one else had done. But of course, the other thing that Made them also not wanting to invest that we had this, you know, pending litigations of billions of dollars. So you can understand that not like a VC would not want to invest.
AI assessment note: “we went around in Europe, we went to kind of all the VCs”
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D 4 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q the world by storm in, in, in 2000, in 99, 2000, and you must have been noticing this. I mean, all of a sudden, overnight, students started to show up to university with a computer and a hard drive, not their CDs anymore. Because they could store everything in their computer and shirt. What, what, what did you, what did you guys, were you, were you guys on an Appster?
A Yeah, so the kind of one point O version of the, of the web was very much still company to consumers, even like something like Yahoo, there was not a community. It's like, and we thought that the interesting thing with internet when the end users can be connected, and that's, that's something that used, we felt that was the right thing to do, because it's like, it was kind of bypassing the corporations and, and empowering the end users. That's what we thought was a beautiful thing with internet, and, and it was yet To be happening. When we saw Napster, of course, was a huge aha moment, uh, for a few reasons, right? One was a technical reason, like that, that actually was, it worked, that you can actually connect and use your own computer as an uploading server. That was fascinating, just on a technical level, but more on a social level, it was, what was fascinating is that this was, again, it was fascinating. Users communicating directly with each other and sharing their content.
AI assessment note: “When we saw Napster, of course, was a huge aha moment”
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D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q So you asked one of your engineers, hey, can you set this up so you don't have to pay telephone bills?
A Completely. And it turned out that it was really complicated. So if you were, like, skilled engineer, you could do it, right? But then the other result, when we started using it, that pretty crappy voice quality. So It wasn't very successful, but the other thing we did was traveling, um, uh, as you know, like the great thing in Europe is that it's easy to travel between different countries, so you take your mobile phone, travel to another country, and still use it, which was amazing. The problem is that the roaming fee was, like, very, very expensive, so the mobile operators really took advantage of roaming because essentially To cost to produce a phone call when, whether you're roaming or not is kind of the same.
AI assessment note: “Completely. And it turned out that it was really complicated.”
