JF
Source-basedStable
Janus Friis
Danish entrepreneur
- Fame50.0
- Momentum0.8
- Wikipedia2K
Born 1976 · age 50
FoundersFounder
Verify ownership in 2 minutes. Keeps the profile accurate and discoverable.
Summary
Updated 2026-06-19
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.
Where to find them
Platforms
No platforms connected yet.
Claim this profile to add yours →By the numbers
Score breakdown
The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.
Fame
Stable50.0
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum0.8
Historical15.8
Source confidence60.0
Completeness45.0
Global rank
—
Country rank
—
Category rank
—
Receipts
Sources
- WikiquoteLow confidencewebsite · en.wikiquote.org
- يانوس فريسLow confidencewikipedia · ar.wikipedia.org
- يانوس فريسLow confidencewikipedia · arz.wikipedia.org
Discover
You might know
Similar profiles worth watching
.jpg?width=1200)
.jpg?width=1200)
