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Shawn Fanning (born November 22, 1980) is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and angel investor. He developed Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing platforms, in 1999. The popularity of Napster was widespread and Fanning was featured on the cover of Time magazine. [1]
Sean Parker (born December 3, 1979) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, most notable for co-founding the file-sharing computer service Napster, and was the first president of the social networking website Facebook. He also co-founded Plaxo, Causes, Airtime.com, and Brigade, an online platform for civic engagement.
Napster co-founders Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker launched video-chat company Airtime Media in June of this year. Now, four months later, the future of the company is uncertain, and Fanning has ...
Jordan Ritter (born February 1, 1978) is an American serial entrepreneur, software architect and angel investor.He is best known for his work at Napster, the file-sharing service he co-founded along with Shawn Fanning and others.
When it launched on June 1, 1999, the peer-to-peer music sharing service responded to a real need. It also heralded a troubling new ethic in tech that still shapes our world today.
An internet site appears on a computer screen as a user downloads music onto a minidisc player on October 8, 2003 in London. Falling sales of CD's and the imminent relaunch of online music ...
Ali Aydar is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur. He is the chief executive officer of Sporcle.. He is best known as an early employee and key technical contributor at the original Napster, the file-sharing service created by Shawn Fanning in 1999, and at SNOCAP, the digital rights and content management startup Fanning founded after Napster.
On March 12, 2013, following the world premiere at SXSW, there was a panel discussion including director Alex Winter and Napster co-founders Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker. [ 11 ] The film subsequently screened within such festivals as Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and Maryland Film Festival , with Alex Winter hosting ...