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hi-fi or die
I met Tim Westergren shortly after he’d mortgaged his home to keep the lights on at Pandora. His vision and intelligence are/were orders of magnitude greater than most & mine. Later we (Tim and Pandora’s CEO at the time) all served on a Congressional lobby committee in May of 2007 relating to royalty rate hearings for Internet radio. Pandora was a goldmine idea with an ambulance in tow. Thankfully Pandora survived bankruptcy (along with countless independent Internet radio stations) and it’s imprint flourished wildly despite profitability.
As more funding rolled in so did top-notch directors and CEOs; the employee count boomed. It blossomed into a scatter-fest of “grand” ideas and strategies focused mainly upon profitability. Music? Deep back catalogs went back burner. Hindsight says, necessary poison. Sigh….they ended up F’ing with the original algorithm in order to serve up more popular music in order to acquire and maintain their growing base of listeners. Fuh, at the end of the day, who’s fault and personal shortchange is that really? Dang.
I had high hopes when they bought Rdio’s assets in order to add an on-demand service. 2+ years later, major blah; considering Pandora’s resume and bank. A new directive and focus; the embers are there somewhere, yes!? Sadly, its’ since become shattered and consumed compliments of becoming a behemoth lost in a bureaucratic revolving door of devil dance cookie cutter coding. It’s like they’re years behind the competitors that went to school on their dime. A mind boggling WTF imo.
Pandora today is an unbelievably pale representation of what it used to be and the promise of what it could have, should have, become. Is this really the only survivable recipe to become ubiquitou$ and convenient? A bitchin ground breaker to heart breaker tale. It's like the demise of FM radio all over again.
The dream service is awash in the gutters of Wall Street….Sad.
As more funding rolled in so did top-notch directors and CEOs; the employee count boomed. It blossomed into a scatter-fest of “grand” ideas and strategies focused mainly upon profitability. Music? Deep back catalogs went back burner. Hindsight says, necessary poison. Sigh….they ended up F’ing with the original algorithm in order to serve up more popular music in order to acquire and maintain their growing base of listeners. Fuh, at the end of the day, who’s fault and personal shortchange is that really? Dang.
I had high hopes when they bought Rdio’s assets in order to add an on-demand service. 2+ years later, major blah; considering Pandora’s resume and bank. A new directive and focus; the embers are there somewhere, yes!? Sadly, its’ since become shattered and consumed compliments of becoming a behemoth lost in a bureaucratic revolving door of devil dance cookie cutter coding. It’s like they’re years behind the competitors that went to school on their dime. A mind boggling WTF imo.
Pandora today is an unbelievably pale representation of what it used to be and the promise of what it could have, should have, become. Is this really the only survivable recipe to become ubiquitou$ and convenient? A bitchin ground breaker to heart breaker tale. It's like the demise of FM radio all over again.
The dream service is awash in the gutters of Wall Street….Sad.