Janus Friis

Name: Janus Friis

Born: June 26, 1976, in Copenhagen, Denmark

Computer-related contributions

• Danish entrepreneur.
• Co-founder of Skype, KaZaA, Rdio, Joost, Altnet, and Vdio.
• Sold Skype to eBay for $2.6B (2005) which sold Skype to Microsoft Corporation for $8.5 billion (2011).

Honors and awards

• Named in Time Magazine's list of 100 most influential people (2006).
• Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award (2006).
• Awarded the "IT-prisen", "The IT Prize" (2006).