# Janus Friis

> 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 US$2.6 billion. Friis has maintained ownership interest in Skype through Silver Lake Partners, which sold Skype to Microsoft for $8.5 billion, in May 2011.

*Danish entrepreneur*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Founder ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524))
- **Category:** Founders
- **Born:** 1976-06-26
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
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- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Janus_Friis)
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- [Janus Friis](https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_Friis)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92771)

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