• Janus Friis (Danish: [ˈjɛːnus ˈfʁiˀs]; born 26 June 1976) is a Danish entrepreneur best known for co-founding the file-sharing application Kazaa, and...
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    Rdio was launched by Skype Technologies founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis on August 3, 2010. At the time they had to compete with services such...
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  • Sweden, and Janus Friis, from Denmark. The software was created by Estonians Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, Jaan Tallinn, and Toivo Annus. Friis and Annus...
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    founded in 2014. Starship Technologies was founded by Skype co-founders Janus Friis and Ahti Heinla. Initially, it was called Project Echo. A core team of...
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    (/ˈdʒuːst/) was an Internet TV service, created by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (founders of Skype and Kazaa). During 2007–2008 Joost used peer-to-peer...
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  • footballer Janus Friis (born 1976), Danish entrepreneur Johan Friis (1494-1570), Danish statesman Jørgen Friis, Danish bishop Kristian Friis Petersen (1867-1932)...
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    Janus Friis (born 1976), Danish entrepreneur Janus August Garde (1823–1893), Danish politician and Governor-General of the Danish West Indies Janus Genelli...
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  • created Skype. After selling it to Niklas Zennström from Sweden and Janus Friis from Denmark, it was introduced in March 2001 by their Dutch company...
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    other companies numerous times. In 2003 he helped develop Skype with Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, as well as Heinla and Tallinn. These five also...
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    flight in February 2007, Danish co-founder of the Skype application, Janus Friis, openly had sex with Christina Knudsen, Roger Moore's stepdaughter, when...
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    telecommunications systems within their borders. Skype was founded in 2003 by Janus Friis from Denmark and Niklas Zennström from Sweden, having its headquarters...
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  • an internet television service created by Skype and Rdio co-founder Janus Friis in 2011. On April 2, 2013, Vdio was officially launched for Rdio premium...
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  • working on Wire have previously worked with Skype, and Skype's co-founder Janus Friis is backing the project. Audio quality is one of Wire's key selling points...
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  • one being Atomico, a venture group that includes Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who sold Skype to eBay in 2005 for $2.6 billion. In January, 2010 Seesmic...
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    NASA Centennial Challenge as team leader for Team Kuukulgur. Heinla and Janus Friis founded Starship Technologies in 2014, to develop small self-driving...
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  • which is a secure messaging app for personal use. Skype's co-founder Janus Friis helped create Wire and many Wire employees previously worked for Skype...
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    father, Tallinn developed FastTrack and Kazaa for Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (formerly of Tele2). Kazaa's P2P technology was later repurposed to drive...
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  • Alberto Moreno Shakira Julio Mario Santo Domingo Amr Khaled Amr Moussa Janus Friis Nicolas Sarkozy Pascal Lamy Michèle Alliot-Marie Baudouin Prot Jean-Claude...
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    get2net and as CEO of the everyday.com portal. In 2000, Zennström and Janus Friis co-founded Kazaa, a peer-to-peer file sharing application. In 2003, with...
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  • employed. Kazaa was then owned by its originators Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis and the company was facing legal action from the Dutch music industry...
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  • sold to Swedish entrepreneur Niklas Zennström and Danish programmer Janus Friis (who were later to create Skype and later still Joost and Rdio). Kazaa...
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  • Everipedia Justin Frankel Cockos Jared Friedman Scribd Nat Friedman Ximian Janus Friis Skype, Kazaa, Rdio Gian Fulgoni ComScore Marcos Galperin MercadoLibre...
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  • 8.5 May 2011 September 2015 Acquired 2.6 Sweden Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis Toast 8 November 2020 September 2021 IPO 20 United States Twitter 8 September...
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    Reid Hoffman 2003 Myspace Thomas Anderson 2003 Skype Niklas Zennström, Janus Friis 2004 Facebook Mark Zuckerberg 2004 Orkut Orkut Büyükkökten 2005 YouTube...
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  • was launched in March 2014. The startup was backed by Skype co-founder Janus Friis. The Random app received a strong reception from the likes of The New...
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    on online TV which was founded by Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. In September 2009, a lawsuit was filed against Volpi by Skype’s founders...
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  • November 2015, streaming music service Rdio, founded by Skype co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, declared bankruptcy and sold its assets to Pandora...
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  • the FastTrack proprietary protocol are released by Niklas Zennström, Janus Friis, and Priit Kasesalu. The Kazaa Media Desktop client came bundled with...
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  • Danneskiold-Samsøe (1776–1843), founder of the Holmegaard Glass Factory Janus Friis, Skype, Kazaa, Joost and minor companies Ole Henriksen (1951–), cosmetologist...
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  • investors including Index Ventures, Atomico (founded by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis), Mangrove Capital Partners, and Klaus Hommels. One analyst valued Woo...
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