For those of you unfamiliar with Pandora, it is the world's largest Internet radio "station", with well over 15 million listeners, according to Westergren.
I asked Tim about the origins of the name, which is certainly evocative:
When I asked what prompted him to found Pandora, he explained that the origins of the company came out of his own experience, serving as a band member, and later a film composer, when the taxonomy of music (see my earlier post on this topic) became a central preoccupation:
He went on to explain that listeners' input contributed significantly to Pandora's programming.
He discussed the range of receiving hardware for Pandora's software, and the introductions of advertising into the soundstream:
I asked him about royalties to the artists:
As to the recent controversial legal revision of royalty rates, he said that he felt the most recent court decision, while not ideal, was "workable":
Noting that the Pandora playlists has relatively little in the way of music from around the world, I asked him about any possible plans to include Indian music, my own scholarly and performance specialty:
I'll return in a later posting to some of the details of Pandora.
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