The Swedish entrepreneur Niklas Zennström has much in common with your typical Silicon Valley tech billionaire. A life-changing fortune made at lightning speed before the age of 40? Tick. An overenthusiastic tendency to evangelise about how start-ups can put a dent in the universe? Tick. A love of bobbing up and down on an ostentatious yacht? Tick.
Yet in several other respects, the shaggy-haired, leather-jacketed, 6ft 4in Zennström, who ambles into the Roka restaurant in Fitzrovia in central London on a Friday lunchtime, is an intriguing outlier who would confuse any pattern-matching algorithm for tech bros.
Support authors and subscribe to content
This is premium stuff. Subscribe to read the entire article.
Login if you have purchased