Shawn Fanning

It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market. ↗

— Shawn Fanning

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Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business. ↗

— Shawn Fanning

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Bertelsmann understood our vision when they first invested in us... They still believe in that vision. ↗

— Shawn Fanning

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But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content. ↗

— Shawn Fanning

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He said this has the potential to be the first broadband killer application, and it has sort of become the truth because obviously it's so bandwidth intensive. I mean, it has been an issue. ↗

— Shawn Fanning

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I had to actually purchase a book to learn the API and write the client. It was pretty frustrating trying to learn the API and develop a product quickly. ↗

— Shawn Fanning

#book #client #develop #frustrating #had

I think in terms of the work we're doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier. ↗

— Shawn Fanning

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I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software. ↗

— Shawn Fanning

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If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets. ↗

— Shawn Fanning

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If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer? ↗

— Shawn Fanning

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