# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/janus-friis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:42:56.000Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/janus-friis"
name: "Janus Friis"
slug: "janus-friis"
description: "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."
tagline: "Danish entrepreneur"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1976-06-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.04
  momentum:             0.7725321888412017
  historical:           15.80691733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "يانوس فريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "يانوس فريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_Friis"
    title: "Janus Friis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_Friis"
    title: "Janus Friis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_Friis"
    title: "Janus Friis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_Friis"
    title: "Janus Friis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_Friis"
    title: "Janus Friis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_Friis"
    title: "Janus Friis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_Friis"
    title: "Janus Friis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_Friis"
    title: "Janus Friis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_Friis"
    title: "Janus Friis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_Friis"
    title: "Janus Friis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A4%E3%83%8C%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ヤヌス・フリス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_Friis"
    title: "Janus Friis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_Friis"
    title: "Janus Friis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_Friis"
    title: "Janus Friis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%81_%D0%A4%D1%80%D1%96%D1%81"
    title: "Янус Фріс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_Friis"
    title: "Janus Friis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92771"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump