Janus Friis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Janus Friis

Danish entrepreneur

Date of Birth: 26-Jun-1976

Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Profession: computer scientist, entrepreneur

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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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.

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