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Scaling Europe

Europe’s future GDP growth needs tech: Niklas Zennström, CEO at Atomico

2026-03-09 · 4 company · 8 thematic
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niklas zennström

Serial entrepreneur (Skype, Kazaa) turned investor; founded Atomico 20 years ago to champion European tech. Advocates for pension-fund allocation to venture, European tech sovereignty, and ambition scaling. Published State of European Tech report for 11 years.

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“So it's going to have to be Daniel Ek. Um you know, when when he built um Spotify, I saw it really really early. You know, I was of course also in in in around Stockholm and and I was then had just done Kazaa and we had this massive litiga…”
—niklas zennström
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