Shawn Fanning
Shawn Fanning
Shawn Fanningis an American computer programmer, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor. He developed Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peerfile sharing platforms, in 1999. The popularity of Napster was widespread and Fanning was featured on the cover of Time magazine...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth22 November 1980
CityBrockton, MA
CountryUnited States of America
thinking term
I think in terms of the work were doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier.
media space people
Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one location,... Once I got it into my head, I couldn't imagine the media space without one.
thinking computer antisocial
If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets.
independent artist labels
Independent artists and labels have always been the trendsetters in music and the music business.