Niklas Zennström, the Swede who made headlines last week for selling his Skype internet telephony company to Ebay in a multi-billion dollar deal, has slammed Sweden's high taxes and job protection and has laid into his fellow countrymen for being lazy.This is guy isn't going for tenure at Harvard.
“Maybe this doesn’t work too well when the rest of the world is working hard,” he says.
Zennström acknowledges that Sweden is an advanced IT nation, but only when it comes to high user rates.
“There aren’t many successful IT products or companies from Sweden
Monday, September 19, 2005
Swedes called "lazy" by Skype founder
The Local reports that someone is calling the Swedes "lazy":