Janus Friis (Entrepreneur) – Overview, Biography

Name:Janus Friis
Occupation: Entrepreneur
Gender:Male
Birth Day: June 26,
1976
Age: 46
Birth Place: Copenhagen,
Denmark
Zodiac Sign:Cancer

Janus Friis

Janus Friis was born on June 26, 1976 in Copenhagen, Denmark (46 years old). Janus Friis is an Entrepreneur, zodiac sign: Cancer. Nationality: Denmark. Approx. Net Worth: $1.3 Billion. With the net worth of $1.3 Billion, Janus Friis is the #1030 richest person on earth all the time in our database.

Trivia

Time Magazine named him one of the top 100 most influential people of 2006.

Net Worth 2020

$1.3 Billion
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Before Fame

He hardly had an education as he dropped out of high school and found a job with one of Denmark’s first internet providers called CyberCity.

Biography

Biography Timeline

1996

Friis had no formal higher education, dropping out of high school before starting a job at the help desk of CyberCity, one of Denmark’s first Internet service providers. 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.

2000

After this, the partners decided to leave Tele2. Friis moved into Zennström’s small apartment in Amsterdam in January 2000 where they started developing KaZaA, the company responsible for the most popular software for use with the FastTrack file sharing network protocol. Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström developed the FastTrack protocol in 2001.

2006

Friis was named in Time Magazine’s list of 100 most influential people in 2006.

In 2006 Janus Friis got the prestigious award “IT-prisen” (“The IT Prize”) in his home country, given by the Danish IT industry and IDG, for his work and innovation.

2010

Friis founded the online music streaming service Rdio with Zennström in 2010. It filed for bankruptcy in November 2015 and announced the sale of assets to Pandora Radio for $75 million.

2012

In 2012, Friis co-founded Wire, a secure collaboration platform that uses end-to-end encryption to protect digital assets.

2014

Friis and Ahti Heinla founded Starship Technologies in 2014, to develop small self-driving delivery robots. In September 2016, the robots took the streets in San Francisco in a test authorized by the city.

2015

He was engaged to Danish recording artist Aura Dione but the couple split up in April 2015.

🎂 Upcoming Birthday

Currently, Janus Friis is 46 years, 5 months and 7 days old. Janus Friis will celebrate 47th birthday on a Monday 26th of June 2023.

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