“Ever since we started listening to music from our mobile phones, it’s become an isolated experience. That’s a real gap,” explains Katz, as to why the founders wanted to build Playlist in the first place. “The world has gone social, but music has been largely left behind. He’s a growth hacker, app developer, game developer, and is now helpling Playlist onboard influencers to its service. Afterwards, he was CTO at Concert Technology, a technology incubator and intellectual property company with a focus on mobile, social and digital music services.Ĭhris Obereder was CMO of Jam Music, and was added as a Playlist co-founder while the service was in beta, says Katz. In the early 2000s he created the software architecture and ran the team at PortalPlayer Inc., which powered the iPod’s music player and was later sold to Nvidia for $357 million. Peterson, meanwhile, has 35 patents and more than a decade of experience in digital music. She also was a founding executive team member at Photobucket, and founded a company called Project Playlist, which was like a Google search for music back in the Myspace era. Katz previously co-founded AdSpace Networks and the social music platform, Jam Music, which served as the Playlist beta. The app, backed by investment from Stanford’s StartX fund, was founded by Karen Katz and Steve Petersen, both Stanford engineers and serial entrepreneurs. In Playlist, you can find others who share your musical tastes and join group chats where you listen to playlists together in real time. A new app called Playlist aims to make music a more social experience than what’s offered today by the major music platforms like Apple Music, Pandora or Spotify, for example.
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