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born 1976 Denmark

Janus Friis (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.

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What people don’t like is television that is locked in linear time. We want to try and preserve the best bits of television, and discard bits people don’t care for.

Five Questions with Skype co-founder Janus Friis (2006)

That’s what the Venice Project is doing. What we have done is created a streaming P2P platform for television. This is a platform, which is good for content owners, for advertisers and of course the viewers.

Five Questions with Skype co-founder Janus Friis (2006)

Niklas and I are entreprenuers at heart, and eBay understands that. I am still at Skype and I think that is where I spend most of my time. On The Venice Project we have tried to build a management team that will take care of things.

Five Questions with Skype co-founder Janus Friis (2006)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Janus Friis (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.