Skype’s anunal revenue more than $70 million
In an interview in today’s issue of Swedish business weekly Affärsvärlden Skype co-founder and CEO Niklas Zennström shed some light on the company’s revenue. Skype has 51 million registered users and more than 2 million customers. Registered users are growing 130,000 per day. Nothing new, really.
More interesting was the information about Skype’s monthly revenue per user. According to Niklas Zennström Skype’s has income of “a couple of few dollars per month per customer”. Assuming that a couple of dollars equals three dollars, Skype has annual revenue of $72+ million. This is a figure far higher than the $10 million number mentioned by Bambi Francisco at the Always On 2005 conference.
note: “a couple of dollars…” changed to “a few dollars…” to better capture the nuance of the Swedish word “några”. The qoute attributed to Niklas Zennström read “Intäkterna ligger på några dollar i månaden per kund” in Swedish.
September 7th, 2005 at 9:15 pm
[…] torstensson.com, channeling Swedish business weekly Affärsvärlden, points out that Skype’s annual revenues are in the $70 million range. […]
September 8th, 2005 at 3:19 pm
[…] Dat zou een opmerkelijke, dure en op het eerste oog branchevreemde aankoop zijn voor eBay. Skype publiceerde nooit financiele cijfers, maar volgens een recente gissing - meer is het niet - ligt de jaaromzet van Skype rond de 72 miljoen dollar. […]