Music compels all of us--individually, in our own way. It fills our moments, our cars, our movies, and our thoughts. Grooveshark started with one question: how could we be enriched by changing the way we find and listen to music?
Our goals: To improve the connection between people and music. To change the music industry in ways they seem so unwilling to consider. To have fun.
We have a team of 40 passionate employees who wake up daily to live and work for the music, but what we're really about is simple: you. We want you to help us grow, get better, and help us help the music. It's the one thing we can all agree on.
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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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John Ashenden
Chief Creative Officer & VP of Product Development
John Ashenden (John with an H) is both an experienced graphic designer and web developer. John enjoys making things appear shinier than they should be.
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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 Marketing Logistics
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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Beth Condra
Director of Advertising
Beth graduated with her BA in Theatre from Florida State University in 2005. She enjoys listening to Beck, Devendra Banhart, The Smiths, and Patsy Cline. She once went as Gwen Stefani for Halloween and signed autographs.
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Paulo Dasilva
Senior Software Engineer
Like a true Brazilian Paulo loves soccer, and he applies his soccer skills to programming where he passes bytes, dribbles bottlenecks, slide tackles bugs, and kicks packets into the net, so he can meet the team's Gooooals!
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Corey Forbus
VP of Mobile Development
Corey strives to provide users with the most elegant and sensible interaction with Grooveshark that he possibly can. When he is not hard at work fostering the user experience he's busy breaking necks and cashing checks.
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Aaron Ford
VP of Industry Relations & Business Development
Aaron spent six years in the marketing department at a major record company where he became fascinated with strategies artists and organizations use to directly engage fans and business partners, building long-lasting, meaningful, and fruitful relationships. Now, he applies his experience and skills at Grooveshark.
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Jennifer Hutton
Executive Assistant to the CEO
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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Joe Kelly
Senior Software Engineer
A seasoned online veteran, Joe spends his time as the enforcer of web standards. Don't let his boyish demeanor fool you, Joe has the strike of a Crocodile, the brute-strength of a an adult-sized grizzly bear, and the sting of an Australian box jellyfish.
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Graham Murphy
Senior Community Developer
Graham recently graduated from UF with a degree in Psychology. When he isn't spending his time in the Grooveshark office, Graham ponders one of life's greatest questions: I can haz cheezburger?
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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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Daniel Pua
Software Engineer
Even if it means I have to pass through heaven, hell and everything in between - someday, you'll see just how great I am.
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Abhijith Reddy
Symbian Developer
"Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed."
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Evan Rocha
VP of Artist Relations
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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Roberto Sanchez
Web Developer
In addition to working at Grooveshark, I'm working on a B.S. in Astronomy at UF. I'm also good at drawing and know four languages (English, Spanish, French, and learning Russian).
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Omar Sebti
Assistant to the CFO
Omar loves finance and trys to learn more about it all the time. He enjoys raging on huge excel documents, playing soccer, listening to metal music, and having good times with good people. Omar is also excited that you made it all the way to the S section of the about page!
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Pavle Stojkovic
Director of Business Development
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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Joe Susi
Chief Financial Officer
Joe is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Florida. An alum of University of Florida, and a huge Gator Fanatic!! There is not much better than Saturdays in the Swamp!! Go Gators!!
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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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Ben Westermann-Clark
User Relations
In the beginning of the 21st Century, human intelligence had evolved such that artificial recreations could sufficiently emulate the ennui of higher-primate cognition. The robots were the only ones who liked Ben's music. I also like helping people.
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Travis Whitton
Software Engineer
After wading through the treachery of the dot com bubble, Travis brings years of industry experience and valuable insight to the Grooveshark team. When he's not hard at work writing code, he enjoys living in a van by the river right down the street from the Grooveshark headquarters.
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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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Free streaming. Social networking. Music discovery. Oh, and reimbursement for sharing when somebody buys a song that you've uploaded to the collective. "
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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. "
