Niklas Zennestrom and Janus Friis: Founders of Skype

Posted on January 8, 2007 
Filed Under Skype

As the CEO and co-founder of Skype, Niklas Zennström oversees all aspects of Skype’s business internationally. Niklas reports to eBay CEO Meg Whitman, and also serves on eBay’s executive committee. Niklas co-founded Skype in 2003 to offer consumers worldwide a free software for making superior-quality calls using their computer. Skype is the fastest growing communications phenomenon in history.

Prior to Skype, Niklas founded and served as CEO at Joltid, a software company that develops and markets peer-to-peer (P2P) solutions and traffic optimization technologies for service providers. Niklas co-founded and served as CEO of KaZaA, the consumer file-sharing sensation that became the world’s most downloaded Internet software in 2003.

Niklas also co-founded Altnet, the world’s first secure P2P network that promotes commercial content and integrates the full value chain of promotion, distribution, and payment for digital content. Altnet was the world’s largest issuer of DRM licenses.

Janus Friis is co-founder of Skype and currently serves as its director of strategy and innovation, overseeing business strategy and product development to ensure that Skype, the voice of the Internet, continues its rapid innovation and maintains its focus on delighting callers worldwide.

Prior to launching Skype with co-founder Niklas Zennström in 2003, the duo co-founded Joltid, a software company that developed and marketed P2P solutions and P2P traffic optimization technologies, as well as KaZaA, the world’s most downloaded Internet software.

Janus is also the co-founder of Altnet, the world’s first secure P2P wholesale network. Altnet was the world’s largest issuer of DRM licenses, and promotes commercial content to millions of consumers and integrates the full value chain of promotion, distribution, and payment of digital content. Additionally, Janus is responsible for establishing Bullguard.com, a security software company.

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