Grooveshark was founded in 2006 by three University of Florida students determined to accomplish what the music industry couldn't - make purchasing music online easy, enjoyable and worthwhile.
Grooveshark is the ability to find and listen to any song, share and receive personalized recommendations and purchase music at a fair price with the knowledge that the copyright holder will be paid.
Today, Grooveshark has grown to a team of 40 passionate employees dedicated to creating the best online music experience possible - a goal that doesn't end, but instead will allow us to grow and evolve with our users.
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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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Josh Greenberg
Co-Founder / CTO + VP of Products
Josh polishes ideas and turns them into a reality. Josh enjoys contemplating, strategizing, observing, learning, leading, and getting things done.
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Vishal Agarwala
Senior UI Engineer
Vishal sometimes can't decide if (he likes coding > designing) or designing more than coding. He also hates Internet Explorer 6 with a passion.
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Nikola Arabadjiev
Research Intern
Hailing from Bulgaria, Nikola enjoys doing web based research and has immense passion for trance music.
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John Ashenden
Chief Web/Visual Designer
John Ashenden (aka 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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John Bauer
Writer
You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what’s burning inside you. You edit to let the fire show through the smoke.
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Douglas Bell
Network / Systems Administrator
Douglas is a musician and a geek who believes that focusing on what you think cannot be done is just an excuse for not doing what can be done. When Douglas is not working behind the scenes at Grooveshark he likes playing guitar, SCUBA diving, building fast cars and red wine. Getting through life on love and caffeine...
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Josh Bonnain
Marketing and Relations
Josh knows relationships drive healthy, efficient business. He leverages these to help expand Grooveshark into new and exciting territory.
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Michael Cugini
Software Engineer
Presented with a problem he can't code a solution to, Michael will find and learn a language where it is trivial (it's not cheating! it's elegant!).
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Colin Hostert
Chief Security and Information Officer
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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Vilma Jarvinen
Community Outreach Coordinator
Vilma runs the Grooveshark Booking, raises money for good causes like music education and floats between Artist and Label Relations. When she's not playing music, she's probably composing in her head and pretending not to be distracted.
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Matt Lübner
OOP Guru + Developer
Currently designing (in part) the software that makes Grooveshark deliver on all of your musical whims, Matt is a true-to-heart renaissance man, and loves to artistically experiment with music, literature and graphic design. He is determined to solve the world's big problems, and knows the means lie in perspective before us all.
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Isaac Moredock
Marketing Intern
Isaac has a passion for marketing and enjoys implementing ideas.
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Chanel Munezero
Web Developer
Chanel wrestles with browsers everyday to do his bidding.
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Jay Paroline
PHP Developer
Jay workings the robust beach. He creates the hard drive. He teaches the architecture. He optimizes the beach.
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Daniel Pua
Software Developer
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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Katy Richard
Web Developer
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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Alex Shifrin
Chief Operating Officer
"No great thing is created suddenly."
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Nathan Thompson
Online Marketing
I don't get out of bed for less than half a million dollars. I sleep a lot.
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Alejandra Valdes
Human Resources
Photographer, Human Resources, Therapist, Den Mother When she's not off grabbing sweet photos for the blog, providing personal support for the sharks, or making sure the office is running smoothly and the pantry is stocked - sometimes she gets a chance to do human resources.
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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
Web Developer
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. "