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Jun 26, 1976 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark 48 years old
Danish entrepreneur
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About Janus Friis
- Janus Friis (['jæ?nus 'f?i??s]; born 26 June 1976) is a Danish entrepreneur best known for co-founding the file-sharing application Kazaa, and the peer-to-peer telephony application Skype.
- In September 2005, he and his partner Niklas Zennström sold Skype to eBay for $2.6B.
- Friis has maintained ownership interest in 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 distributing TV shows and other forms of video content over the Web.
- The assets of this service were 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 2014, to develop small self-driving delivery robots.
