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Janus Friis is a Danish businessman best known for co-founding the Kazaa file sharing app and the peer-to-peer Skype phone app. In September 2005, he and his business partner Niklas Zennström sold Skype to eBay for $ 2.6 billion. Friis retained ownership of Skype through Silver Lake Partners, which sold Skype to Microsoft for $ 8.5 billion in May 2011. Friis and Zennström also developed Joost - an interactive software application for the distribution of TV shows and other types of video content over the web. Ownership of the service was sold to Adconion Media Group in November 2009. Independently, Friis founded video streaming startup Vdio in 2011. Friis and Ahti Heinla founded Starship Technologies in 2011. 2014, to develop small, autonomous delivery robots .
BornJune 26, 1976, Copenhagen, Denmark
NationalityDanish
OccupationEntrepreneur
Known forCo-founder of Skype, KaZaA and Rdio
Net worthUS$ 1.3 billion (2012)

About Janus Friis

Entrepreneur Janus Friis was born on June 26, 1976 in Copenhagen, Denmark (He's 47 years old now).

Co-founder of KaZaA, Skype, and Rdio, and a billionaire entrepreneur. He and his partner Niklas Zennstrom originally sold Skype to eBay for $2.6 billion.

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Janus Friis before becoming famous

Janus Friis was born in the Zodiac sign Cancer (The Crab), and 1976 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Dragon (龍).

He walked out of high school with little schooling and went to work for CyberCity, one of Denmark's early internet providers.

Achievement of Janus Friis

He was named one of Time Magazine's top 100 most important people in 2006.

Janus Friis's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He was born in the Danish capital of Copenhagen.

Janus Friis Collabed with

He initially sold Skype to eBay, which ultimately sold it to Entrepreneur Bill Gates' Microsoft Corporation.

Janus Friis Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Janus Friis updated on March 19 2023.