Which founders came from Skype?

Ex-Skype founders: 5 people who left Skype to start companies

5 people who founded or worked at Skype went on to found 10 companies, including Jaan Tallinn, Janus Friis, Martin Villig, Niklas Zennström and Taavet Hinrikus.

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Founders who came from Skype

Jaan Tallinn

Estonian programmer and investor

Went on to found

Bluemoon Interactive

Janus Friis

Danish entrepreneur (born 1976)

Went on to found

Kazaa 2001 Skype Technologies 2003 Starship Technologies 2014

Martin Villig

Went on to found

Bolt 2013

Niklas Zennström

Swedish entrepreneur (born 1966)

Went on to found

Kazaa 2001 Skype Technologies 2003 Atomico 2006

Taavet Hinrikus

Financial services company

Went on to found

Wise 2011 TransferWise 2011

How this list is built. A person appears here if they founded or worked at Skype and later founded at least one other company in the graph. Missing someone? Add them.