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Sam Tarantino

Sam Tarantino

Founder and former CEO of Grooveshark music streaming service; now founder of Harmonic Reach marketing firm

Jun 5, 2026

14:54
Yeah
14:54
... "I want this song.
14:55
I wanna play it," you had to do, like, these crazy steps to do that.
14:59
So what we ended up doing was we created this little file sharing buy, sell, trade thing, and you would put your library up for, for sale, essentially.
15:09
And it flopped.
15:11
Like, it completely didn't work.
15:12
[laughs] And this was, we were, Josh and I were, um, [lip smacks] we were freshmen, so we were what was that, uh, 8, 19? Yeah, 19.

14 MINS LATER

29:02
Wow.

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