Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way.
We also have a conference call feature where up to five people can talk on one Skype call.
People need to access Skype wirelessly, no matter where they are, and what happens is that we'll be taking advantage of the rollout of Internet everywhere - WiFi and WiMax in particular.
Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.
The thing about the Internet is the openness. People can link to each other themselves.
We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.
When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.
You have 1 billion people using the Internet with 200 million of those now using broadband internet connections, so the Internet has become a powerful network. It can carry calls.
revolutionize the ease with which people can communicate through the Internet.
We want to make talking over the Internet the most natural, simple thing for people all over the world to do - no matter which computer they use.
With the release of our new software, it's never been easier for people to talk to one another for free, and now they can see each other with video as well.
People do business in Sweden and it goes well; they may try launching the product in Denmark instead of considering a global business plan. On the financing side, VCs require too much downside protection and are not willing enough to take risks.
At the office, we actually don't have a land phone line. We use Skype mostly, and mobile phones to receive calls from people not on Skype.
We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries. We're getting 80,000 new users each day. And more than half a million people are connected via Skype at any given moment.
Today, over one million people now make their living on eBay, which is astounding.