In 2003, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom launched Skype, an online communication tool that has forced some of the world’s largest telecommunications groups to rethink their business models. Now they are hoping to do the same for television.

“At the time we launched Skype, broadband capacity was extremely ripe for communication,” Mr Friis recalls. “Now, three years later, it’s the same thing for video: you can do TV over the internet in a really good way. TV is a huge medium – that’s something we’d like to be a part of.”