Janus Friis
Janus Friis was born in Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark on June 26th, 1976 and is the Entrepreneur. At the age of 47, Janus Friis biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Janus Friis (born 26 June 1976) is a Danish entrepreneur best known for co-founding Kazaa and the peer-to-peer telephony service Skype.
In September 2005, he and his partner, Niklas Zennström, sold Skype to eBay for $2.6 billion.
Friis has retained a keen 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 web platform for broadcasting TV shows and other types of video content over the Internet, and Yahoo sold Skype to Microsoft for $8.5 billion.
In November 2009, Adconion Media Group acquired the service.
Friis founded Vdio, a video streaming company founded in 2011. Friis and Ahti Heinla created Starship Technologies in 2014 to produce small self-driving delivery robots.
Personal life
He was engaged to Danish recording artist Aura Dione, but the pair broke up in April 2015.
Career
Friis had no formal higher education, dropping out of high school before starting a job at the help desk of CyberCity, one of Denmark's first Internet service providers. He met Zennström in 1996. At that time, Zennström headed Tele2 in Denmark, and Friis was hired to run its customer support. Friis and Zennström worked together at Tele2 to launch get2net, another Danish ISP, and the portal everyday.com.
After this, the partners decided to leave Tele2. Friis moved into Zennström's small apartment in Amsterdam in January 2000 where they started developing KaZaA, the company responsible for the most popular software for use with the FastTrack file sharing network protocol. Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström developed the FastTrack protocol in 2001.
From the success of KaZaA's peer-to-peer technology the duo co-founded Joltid, a software company developing and marketing peer-to-peer solutions and peer-to-peer traffic optimization technologies to companies.
Friis is also co-founder of Altnet, a network that sells commercial music to KaZaA users.
Friis founded the online music streaming service Rdio with Zennström in 2010. It filed for bankruptcy in November 2015 and announced the sale of assets to Pandora Radio for $75 million.
In 2012, Friis co-founded Wire, a secure collaboration platform that uses end-to-end encryption to protect digital assets.
Friis and Ahti Heinla founded Starship Technologies in 2014, to develop small self-driving delivery robots. In September 2016, the robots took the streets in San Francisco in a test authorized by the city.