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Janus Friis

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Janus Friis (Danish: [ˈjɛːnus ˈfʁiˀs]; born 26 June 1976) 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 $2.6B. Friis has maintained ownership interest in Skype through Silver Lake Partners, which sold Skype to Microsoft for $8.5 billion (~$11.4 billion in 2023), in May 2011. Friis and Zennström also developed Joost—an interactive software application for distributing TV shows and other forms of video content over the Web. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Janus Friis has received more than 306,829 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Janus Friis is the 677th most popular businessperson (down from 565th in 2019), the 703rd most popular biography from Denmark (down from 596th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Danish Businessperson.

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  • 310k

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  • 33.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Janus Friis ranks 677 out of 601. Before him are Scooter Braun, Jack Abramoff, Mike Lindell, Håkon Wium Lie, Daniel Ek, and Esther Dyson. After him are Fife Symington, Randi Zuckerberg, Vinod Khosla, Tessy Antony de Nassau, Steve King, and Zhou Qunfei.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1976, Janus Friis ranks 576. Before him are Daniel Fridman, Carlos Vera, Minami Kuribayashi, Zoli Ádok, Kyrsten Sinema, and Talal El Karkouri. After him are Ildar Abdrazakov, Gehad Grisha, Jessica Cauffiel, Wilson Oruma, Sala Baker, and Maurren Maggi.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Janus Friis ranks 703 out of 893. Before him are Dan Frost (1961), Trine Bramsen (1981), Morten Wieghorst (1971), Anders Samuelsen (1967), Mads Pedersen (1995), and Jan Bartram (1962). After him are Rasmussen (1985), Magnus Cort (1993), Michael Silberbauer (1981), Nikolaj Koppel (1969), Camilla Martin (1974), and Kasper Asgreen (1995).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Denmark

Among businesspeople born in Denmark, Janus Friis ranks 7. Before him are Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891), Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller (1913), Paul Elvstrøm (1928), J. C. Jacobsen (1811), Jakob Nielsen (1957), and Anders Hejlsberg (1960).

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