Janus Friis
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Janus Friis
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Janus Friis 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 business 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 for
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Danish entrepreneur (born 1976)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_Friis
date created:
2004-01-12T11:47:45Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T02:10:48Z
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