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Skype was founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström, from Sweden, and Janus Friis, from Denmark. [20] The software was created by Estonians Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, Jaan Tallinn, and Toivo Annus. [21] Friis and Annus are credited with the idea of reducing the cost of voice calls by using a P2P protocol like that of Kazaa. [22]
Zennström is best known for founding Skype Technologies, a telecommunications company. In October 2005, Skype was acquired by eBay for €2.1 billion ($2.6 billion) with the potential to earn further performance-based bonuses up to €1.2bn.
Skype was founded in 2003 by Janus Friis from Denmark and Niklas Zennström from Sweden, [6] having its headquarters in Luxembourg with offices now in Berlin, Frankfurt, Tallinn, Tartu, Stockholm, London, Palo Alto, Prague, [7] and Redmond, Washington.
Niklas Zennstrom, Swedish e-commerce entrepreneur who, with Janus Friis, created various Internet businesses, notably KaZaA, a second-generation peer-to-peer file-sharing application; Skype, known for using Voice over Internet Protocol; and Joost, which provided video service.
Luxembourg -based Skype Technologies, founded by Niklas Zennström of Sweden and Janus Friis of Denmark, first introduced the software client in 2003. The number of registered users of Skype was about 50 million in 2005 and increased more than 10-fold to more than 600 million just five years later.
Skype was founded by Estonian developers Zahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu and Jaan Tallinn, Danish developer Janus Friis and Sweden’s Niklas Zennstrom. The foremost voice-over-IP service was launched in August 2003. Skype actually stands for “Sky Peer to Peer.”
It began with two people from the Swedish telecom Tele2—a Swede named Niklas Zennström and a Dane named Janus Friis. Zennström was Tele2 employee no. 23; Friis worked his way up in customer service...
In August 2003 Swedish entrepreneurs Niklas Zennström, Janus Friis, and the Estonians Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu launched the peer-to-peer voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) telephony service, Skype. The name of the company evolved from "Sky peer-to-peer" or "Skyper."
With an early taste of success with the popular peer-to-peer file-sharing application Kazaa, Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis went on to create Skype in 2003. Zennström and Friis incorporated some of the code from Kazaa into the early versions of Skype.
Niklas Zennström, CEO and Founding Partner of Atomico and Co-Founder of Skype, discusses his journey as a tech entrepreneur and his views on how the tech community is putting a new focus on addressing broader societal issues.