Age, Biography and Wiki
Janus Friis was born on 26 June, 1976 in Copenhagen, Denmark, is a Danish entrepreneur (born 1976). Discover Janus Friis's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 47 years old?
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| Occupation |
Entrepreneur |
| Age |
47 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Cancer |
| Born |
26 June, 1976 |
| Birthday |
26 June |
| Birthplace |
Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Nationality |
Denmark
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He is a member of famous Entrepreneur with the age 47 years old group. He one of the Richest Entrepreneur who was born in Denmark.
Janus Friis Height, Weight & Measurements
At 47 years old, Janus Friis height not available right now. We will update Janus Friis's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Dating & Relationship status
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Janus Friis Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Janus Friis worth at the age of 47 years old? Janus Friis’s income source is mostly from being a successful Entrepreneur. He is from Denmark. We have estimated Janus Friis's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net worth |
US$ 1.3 billion (2012) |
| Salary in 2024 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
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Not Available |
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| Source of Income |
Entrepreneur |
Janus Friis Social Network
Timeline
Janus Friis (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.
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.
In September 2005, he and his business partner Niklas Zennström sold Skype to eBay for $2.6B.
Friis was named in Time Magazine's list of 100 most influential people in 2006.
In 2006 Janus Friis got the prestigious award “IT-prisen” ("The IT Prize") in his home country, given by the Danish IT industry and IDG, for his work and innovation.
He and Zennström were also the co-recipients of the 2006 Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award, given to business and individuals who have used information technology in a way that changed an industry or society as a whole.
The assets of this service were sold to Adconion Media Group in November 2009.
Friis founded the online music streaming service Rdio with Zennström in 2010.
Friis has maintained ownership interest in Skype through Silver Lake Partners, which sold Skype to Microsoft for $8.5 billion (~$ in ), 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.
Independently, Friis founded video streaming startup Vdio in 2011.
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.
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.
Friis and Ahti Heinla founded Starship Technologies in 2014, to develop small self-driving delivery robots.
It filed for bankruptcy in November 2015 and announced the sale of assets to Pandora Radio for $75 million (~$ in ).
He was engaged to Danish recording artist Aura Dione but the couple split up in April 2015.
In September 2016, the robots took the streets in San Francisco in a test authorized by the city.
