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Janus Friis (Danish: [ˈjɛːnus ˈfʁiˀs]; born 26 June 1976) [1] 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.
Skype was founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström, from Sweden, and Janus Friis, from Denmark. [ 18 ] The software was created by Estonians Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, Jaan Tallinn, and Toivo Annus. [ 19 ] Friis and Annus are credited with the idea of reducing the cost of voice calls by using a P2P protocol like that of Kazaa. [ 20 ]
Skype Technologies (also known as Skype Software , Skype Communications , Skype Inc., and Skype Limited) is a telecommunications company headquartered in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, whose chief business is the manufacturing and marketing of the video chat and instant messaging computer software program Skype, and various Internet telephony services associated with it. [1]
TechCrunch has learned that Mark Dyne, one of Skype's founding investors, is suing billionaire Skype co-founder Janus Friis in California's Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles for ...
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Starship Technologies was founded by Skype co-founders Janus Friis and Ahti Heinla. [5] Initially, it was called Project Echo. [2] A core team of the company became the team Kuukulgur, which led by Ahti Heinla had participated in NASA Centennial Challenge by building experimental sample retrieval robots. [2]
Wire Executive Chairman Janus Friis told Bloomberg that the company will "never create an advertising-based business model", but "might charge for certain premium services in the future". [1] In July 2017, Wire Swiss announced the beta version of an end-to-end encrypted team messaging platform. [37]
Ahti Heinla. Ahti Heinla is an Estonian computer programmer and businessman. He is one of the developers of Skype. [1] He was also an organizer of Let's Do It 2008, a civic action with 50,000 volunteers participating in cleaning up the countryside of Estonia in one day. He was a recipient of the 2008 Estonian Volunteer of the Year national award.