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. 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. From the success of KaZaA's peer-to-peer technology the duo co-founded
Joltid, a software company developing and marketing peer-to-peer solutions and peer-to-peer traffic optimization technologies to companies. Friis is also co-founder of Altnet, a network that sells commercial music to KaZaA users. 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 $75 million (~$ in ). In 2012, Friis co-founded
Wire, a secure collaboration platform that uses end-to-end encryption to protect digital assets. 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. ==Awards==