Thank you to all who came along to Glasshouse
For all the videos from the night, click here
For a flavor on the story, you can watch the video of Felix and Martin in conversation with the BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones from our recent Second Chance Tuesday London event: Tales from the inside: the story of Europe's largest web 2.0 sale.
about Last.fm
Founded in London, Last.fm is the online, social music revolution that connects people with music, and artists with listeners. As two of the three co-founders, Felix Miller and Martin Stiksel helped steer the company from a start-up created in a flat in East London, with a team who slept in tents on the roof, to a site with over 20 million active users in 240 countries which was acquired in 2007 by CBS, making them one of the largest European Web 2.0 exits to date. By joining the Last.fm community, music fans can choose to share their music preferences by linking their media player to the Last.fm database. This database is populated continually with over 600 million monthly track submissions from Last.fm music fans. As a result, Last.fm can intelligently recommend songs, artists, local concerts and even other members based on their musical tastes.
about Felix Miller
Felix Miller, Co-founder and CEO of Last.fm. Felix arrived in London from Germany to study in 1997. He met Martin Stiksel at a gig through a mutual friend. He was in a punk band at the time.
about Martin Stiksel
Martin Stiksel, Co-founder and CCO of Last.fm. Martin moved to London in 1995, where he created a sound design company (working on commissions for the likes of MTV and the BBC), before meeting Felix Miller at a gig in the late ‘90s. The two of them set up an online record label before launching Last.fm in 2002.
about Richard Jones
Richard Jones, Co-founder and CTO of Last.fm. Richard studied computer science at Southampton University. When he was still in college he created the Audioscrobbler software, which powers Last.fm. The technology was written about in The Guardian at the beginning of 2003. That article caught the eye of Martin and Felix, who took the train down to meet him. Richard joined the Last.fm team in Whitechapel in June 2003.
about Brian Hiatt
Brian Hiatt is an associate editor and staff writer at Rolling Stone Magazine, and has been writing about music, new media, and pop culture for the last decade. Hiatt previously held staff writing positions at MTV News and Entertainment Weekly's EW.com, where he was a frequent contributor to the print magazine. In 2000, he shared a Scripps Howard National Journalism Award for his investigative reporting on the Woodstock '99 riots.
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