Niklas Zennstrom Quotes

Another aspect of our work is multimedia teleconferencing.

We built Zoom for the business customers.

I have an awesome team. We all talk about what projects are the best for me to work on for my career and which ones to pass on.

I think that audio and video over the internet in the sense of teleconferencing and telephone calls. Maybe we'll actually have picture phone through your work station.

Skype is kind of amazing - look at Skype in the classroom - those are things that can really excite your organization. That's what has been really great to me.

The best remote companies I've seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis.

Communications will become sight-sound and you will see as well as hear the person you telephone. The screen can be used not only to see the people you call but also for studying documents and photographs and reading passages from books.

As far as employees are concerned, clearly I like to communicate with them, since we are more than 40,000 people. I like to communicate either through e-mail or through video conferencing, which we do very often, and stream out videos and interviews. But more than that, I believe in traveling to my branches.

I think many businesses will allow their employees to work from home. The main challenge here is how to make sure Zoom will give a better and safer experience to users than compared to that in an office environment.

We want to embed Zoom into all workflow applications. That's our direction.

Distributed workforces are most likely to succeed if their culture is one that values and prioritizes face-to-face communications.

A lot of people are counting on Zoom.

I talk a lot with my team-mates.

I really don't like conference calls to be honest. It's always something that bloody happens with a conference call - universally never works out.

I am most heartened when I'm talking to a team when they're reasoning to each other.

As a filmmaker, you are constantly having the discussion with your team about whether something is "relatable".

I've definitely read stuff that I've been offered, where I've been like, "I can't do this. I think somebody would be better in this than me."

One thing America hasn't had is good partnership.

I was thinking about being more global in my work, which means trying more foreign countries and working with foreign filmmakers, hoping they would give me a new take on my work, a new point of view, reinvent me in some way.

You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring into his eyes as if he were your mistress: better fight beside him, read with him, argue with him, pray with him.

Technology alone is not enough.

I structure the scripts and work on them on films and work on scenes with writers and but I haven't written a script myself, I really respect what they do and I'm fortunate I get to work with people that I really enjoy working with and we all kind of spitball and work together on these things, but I haven't written a script yet.

If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that order.

I'm a very friendly person, and I think that's had a big impact on my work because I tend to be pretty good with not trying to always win every argument and things like that. I just sort of try to bring a lot of people together to talk.