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# Napster & Kazaa Founders Answer: Does Innovation Always Have To Be This Messy? [Video]
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/napster-kazaa-founders-answer-does-innovation-always-have-to-be-this-messy-video/
- Published: 2011-05-27T11:16:55.000Z
- Updated: 2011-05-27T11:16:55.000Z
- Description: At eG8 in Pairs, Reuters TV asked Kazaa and Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström and Napster and Facebook co-founder Sean Parker, if disruption of an industry always has to be messy;. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/05/napster-kazaa-founders-answer-does-innovation-always-have-to-
- Author: Bruce Houghton
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At eG8 in Pairs, Reuters TV asked **Kazaa** and **Skype** co-founder **Niklas Zennström** and **Napster** and **Facebook** co-founder **Sean Parker,** if disruption of an industry always has to be messy; and if their current investments in subscription music services including **Spotify** are atonement for the upheaval they caused in the music industry.

  
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