Grooveshark is the world's largest on-demand and music discovery service. With over 15 million songs, Grooveshark is an ecosystem that brings together music fans, bands, music labels, and brands.
By creating new revenue sources for the music industry, innovative marketing opportunities for artists, and strategic data products for music and brand managers, Grooveshark cuts into music piracy by helping everyone—from fan to band—make the most of online music.
Grooveshark serves as an access point for fans, marketing hub for content producers, and an operations center for labels, agencies and brand managers. Grooveshark increases music revenues using one of the most innovative ad platforms in the world, attacks piracy in underperforming markets and reduces the cost of signing and breaking new acts, everyday.
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Sam Tarantino
Founder + CEO
Sam is a musician, an entrepreneur, and a visionary. His intent is to fix the world's problems, but for now is settling on fixing the music industry.
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Nikola Arabadjiev
Quality Assurance
Hailing from Bulgaria, Nikola enjoys being on the cutting edge of technology. He tests the latest and greatest at Grooveshark and has an immense passion for electronic music.
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James Barnes
Graphic Designer + Illustrator
"If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I would be unstoppable." — Bukowski
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Chris Blackburn
Director of Brand Partnerships
Chris enjoys the exploration and implementation stages involved in bringing talented artists to the mainstream. He also enjoys having a few packets of SweetN'Low close by at all times.
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Jason Blate
Internal Operations Director
Organizing the chaos is Jason's specialty. From in-office operations to heading the Street Team, his goal each day is to maintain and promote operational efficiency. Also, he is a ChiaPet connoisseur, which sometimes leads people to believe he may be stuck in the early 90's (not that there's anything wrong with that).
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Josh Bonnain
EVP of Business Development
Josh knows relationships drive healthy, efficient business. He leverages these to help expand Grooveshark into new and exciting territory.
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Mark Caudill
Software Engineer
Mark works on backend code that runs Grooveshark. This code goes on to make music to your ears.
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Michael Cugini
Software Engineer
"The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late." -- Seymour Cray
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Kieran Diaz
Grooveshark Dude
I fight for the users!
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Andrew Frauen
Community Developer
I dig music, movies, coffee, and sharing candy bars. I have aspirations to one day be a doctor lawyer computer programmer supermodel astronaut.
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Paul Geller
SVP of External Affairs
publix > hogan's > jimmy john's > firehouse > larry's giant subs > quisnos > blimpy's > subway > sad sack sub sandwich shanty
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Nathan Geouge
Senior Systems Engineer
Nate is a server ninja. He rocks the shuriken, balls the wakazashi, drops the bass. He's probably hiding in your bushes right now.
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Tyler Gordon
Director of Strategy
Finger pointing to the moon is not the moon.
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Jared Heiman
VP of Sales
Jared graduated from the University of Maryland and heads up Ad Sales for Grooveshark. His music interests include all types ranging from U2 to Phish to Movie Score Soundtracks. His main focus is to make Grooveshark the premiere destination for advertisers to connect with the music community.
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Colin Hostert
CIO + CISO
An entrepreneur and systems engineer at heart, Colin joined Escape Media Group to help build the robust and scalable architecture that powers Grooveshark.
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Ruoxing Hu
QA Engineer
I’m a QA Developer in Grooveshark doing test automation to ensure that every corner of the site works smoothly. I like video games, basketball, ping-pong, Go, and of course, MUSIC -- using aria to destroy everyone’s window!
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Jennifer Hutton
Account Coordinator
Jenny received her B.A. in Theatre from the University of Florida and is currently doing absolutely nothing with her degree. She enjoys being helpful, which is a perfect fit at Grooveshark, where everyone needs help. Her favorite pastimes include eating, reading, playing Xbox, watching TV, and hearing people use the Forrest Gump voice when they talk to her.
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Jessica Kaplan
Community Developer
Epicborn (Better than Dragonborn). Animal Lover Extremist. Magical bee repelling specialist. Severe Melissophobian.
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Jingjing Liu
Senior Mobile Support Analyst
Being the real Kongfu Panda in the shark world, Jingjing is now a Black Belt in mobile support. She tests Grooveshark releases before, during and after development. In her spare time, she is a Grand Master Panda Trainer. Sit, Pickles!
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Paul Nickerson
Data Analyst
Paul attempts to link emotions and data in a madcap effort to take over the world.
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Chris Nielubowicz
Software Engineer
Chris works in the Cave of Wonders with the Genie to produce magical iPhone apps.
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Jay Paroline
VP of Engineering, Harbinger of Bacon
Jay manages the engineering teams and writes the backend code that powers Grooveshark.
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Carlos Perez
VP of International Business Development
Carlos is a Mexican International Business graduate. He likes business, travel around the world, designing and creating stuff. Yes... he loves tequila , tacos and burritos.
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Peter Pezon
Web Developer
A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." He added: "Now go back to Facebook, you putz."
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Anandan Rangasamy
Software Engineer
Received his Dual Masters from UF. Give him a keyboard in front of a monitor with headphones, he would love to program (a Robot or a Computer) all day. Shaking his head for typing or for the music? Both.
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Katy Richard
Senior Software Engineer of Doom
Katy is a front-end web developer with a passion for clean code, usablilty, web standards, and design of all kinds - plus an unhealthy fetish for office supplies.
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Daniel Robertson
Software Engineer
Daniel joined Grooveshark out of his love for music and startups. He works long days to make Grooveshark's Android app better, faster, stronger. Mechanical keyboard required.
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Evan Rocha
SVP of Industry Business Development
He loves hamburgers and once ate a 3lb. burger. He has a hard time passing up a good high five. Evan's top 5 albums: Superchunk: Foolish, The Zombies:Odessy and Oracle, The Replacements: Tim, John Prine: Souvenirs, Michael Jackson:Off The Wall
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Alex Shifrin
"No great thing is created suddenly."
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Skyler Slade
Senior Software Engineer
Skyler joined Grooveshark in early 2007, knowing that a startup would provide him with the quickest path to reaching his goal of being a great software developer. He couldn't have come onboard at a better time; coming in early at a startup has given him the unique opportunity to wear many different hats, working in different roles and technologies as the product has developed. These days Skyler spends his time in Java, leading the development of the Grooveshark Android app.
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Pavle Stojkovic
Director of Hiring
Hailing from Serbia, he came to do what he does best: build meaningful relationships. If you're nice to him, he can be your number one comrade.
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Tilton Taylor
Director of HR
There is no such thing as time. The sun never sets or rises. Days and years don’t exist. There is only your life. Earlier today you were born and death is predicted later in the evening.
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Yoni Teitelbaum
Data Analyst
“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.” - Paul Erdos
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Zach Tetreault
International Coordinator
Zach graduated from UF with a World Musics degree and a Masters in International Business. Grooveshark has allowed him to combine his passion for the two disciplines by coordinating all of the international business efforts and promotional campaigns for artists around the world. He often dreams of a day when man and dolphin can walk hand and flipper.
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Collin Vance
Software Engineer
"I hate listening to people's dreams. It is like flipping through a stack of photographs. If I'm not in any of them and nobody is having sex, what's the point?" - Dennis Reynolds
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Eddy Vasquez
Director of Sales for Central and South American Markets
Born in Chicago Raised in Cuenca, Ecuador, enjoy being athletic and staying active.
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Ryan Ziffer
Systems Engineer
Ryan is a good ol' Colorado boy who spents most of his free time shredding down mountains. When he's not strapped to a board or bike he is deep in the dungeons of Grooveshark's Colorado data center keeping music safe for another day.
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...the social networking aspect of Grooveshark keeps the conversation about music going, and promotes more song sales (labels profit)... "
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...In the turbulent, choppy waters where P2P networks and copyright law chomp at each other's fins for dominance, there's at least one beast that thinks it has a solution to keep everyone happy. Its name: Grooveshark. "
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I can honestly say it's even better than Pandora. The service is called Grooveshark, and from what I experienced they have as much music on their library as the others. "
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Grooveshark tracks the best users so you know who can be trusted to deliver quality content. "
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In the turbulent, choppy waters where P2P networks and copyright law chomp at each other's fins for dominance, there's at least one beast that thinks it has a solution to keep everybody happy. Its name: Grooveshark. " -
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If you're looking for a way to grab music from peer-to-peer networks without that nagging feeling that you're depriving a starving artist of her next meal (or a label exec of that Learjet upgrade), Grooveshark might help. "
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Grooveshark: a new music service that I can see a lot of potential in. "
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Finally a way to have access to millions of songs, without feeling guilty. "
