Other popular platforms include WhatsApp, Facebook messenger, Telegram, Signal, and the list goes on and on. There are significantly more options for communication in the consumer space, but vanilla group text messages tend to be the favorite, followed by email (at least in my home life which I know is not always representative of the majority). I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date.Teams Group Calling – Image Credit, Microsoft. That must have been taking my education seriously. What's the best investment you ever made? I spent nine years working for others before starting Kazaa in 2000. I guess one big mistake I did was not to start my own company earlier.

I make mistakes most of the times and that's part of the risk profile being an entrepreneur. I try not to dwell on big mistakes but to move on when I make a mistake. What's the biggest mistake you made as an entrepreneur and what did you learn from it?

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. Some Internet operators are concerned that video services such as Netflix and YouTube consume lots of the bandwidth on the network. How big of a concern is the growing size of Netflix? But look at Netflix, which started out by posting DVDs and when time was right transitioning to a streaming service - they are killing it. It's just too expensive to get the rights to top tier content for a start-up. It's proven to be a challenging market for some companies that start out as a pure Internet company such as Joost.

Why do you think it is so challenging to make these products profitable though? There is a growing interest in Internet video content from sites such as Hulu, for example. You also launched the online video service Joost in 2006. Today as a venture capitalist at Atomico, these are some of the characteristics we look for in companies: entrepreneurs with global ambitions to become category winners, unique transformational products or business models, large markets in transition and finally the right timing. We went after a large market with a transformational business model, so there was a big opportunity. Also people all around the world want to talk and have video calls with loved ones and co-workers.

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