Topic: Janus Friis
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Janus Friis (born 26 June 1976 in Copenhagen) 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 partner Niklas Zennström sold Skype to eBay for $2.6B. They are currently working on Joost - an interactive software application for distributing TV shows and other forms of video content over the Web.
Before embarking on an entrepreneurial career with Zennström, Friis worked at the help desk of CyberCity, one of Denmark’s first Internet service providers. He has no formal higher education since dropping out of high-school before starting the job at CyberCity. He met Zennström in 1996. At that time, Zennström headed Tele2 in Denmark and Friis was hired to run its customer support .
Friis and Zennström worked together at Tele2 to launch get2net, another Danish ISP, and the portal everyday.com.
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