Pandora's Tim Westergren says licensing fees eat up a massive chunk of cash. SoundExchange's Michael Huppe says artists deserve it. And both agree satellite radio is getting a free ride. READ»
Pandora's Tim Westergren and MOG's David Hyman agree that automobiles are slow, fractured, and generally a pain the tailpipe for web-powered services like theirs. And yet there's nowhere they'd rather be. Here's why.READ»
"It's an interesting thing to consider," Westergren tells Fast Company. "The wild card here is music licensing." But legalities aside, his openness to collaboration speaks volumes about the future of music streaming services.READ»
Pandora already acts like an all-knowing DJ. This week, it launched tools and tweaks to its Music Genome Project algorithm that could factor your friends' song choices into a streaming social megamix. Founder Tim Westergren and CTO Tom Conrad explain.READ»
As Pandora rumbles toward a possible IPO, its founder and Chief Strategy Officer Tim Westergren talks to Fast Company about the secret ingredient in its future formula (hint: it's not an algorithm).READ»
Pandora founder Tim Westergren, a musician since childhood and a veteran of the music business, tells Fast Company how his company survived the burst of the tech bubble and grew by leaps and bounds over 10-plus years, even as the industry withered.READ»
Pandora, Hulu, YouSendIt, and other companies offer their services for free, then nudge users frequently to upgrade to paid accounts. Hey, but if you don't, that's totally cool with them. (Now listen to this ad.)READ»
1. DeAndre "Soulja Boy Tell'em" Way, rapper/producer
The 18-year-old Web wunderkind took a crazy song and dance, and propelled it via YouTube and MySpace fame into an Interscope recording contract and platinum ...READ»
