“Music is really being reinvented in this digital age, and that is bringing it back into people’s lives. It’s a wonderful thing. And in our own small way, that’s how we’re working to make the world a better place.”
-Steve Jobs, Apple
For.Tech.Dummies. (FTD):
Designer and innovator, he was best known as the co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Apple, Inc. Through Apple, Jobs became a pioneer of the personal computer revolution, bringing such devices as the iPod, iPhone and Mac into mainstream culture, and digitalizing music through advances in iTunes.
“The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.”-Mark Zuckerburg, Facebook
FTD:Becoming one of the youngest CEOs of his time, he has revolutionized the social networking experience for a new generation. In programming Facebook, he has given users across the world the opportunity share their music and experiences on a wider scale.
“I’ve helped change the world, at least three times.” -Sean Parker, Napster and Spotify
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An entrepreneur of the highest order, he has a knack for sniffing out the next big thing, which has landed him at the forefront of change. First as one of the founders of Napster, then as Facebook’s first president, Parker now has put his legendary genius into Spotify, a Swedish music streaming service, that offers digital streaming of selected music from a range of major and independent record labels.
“I like to create art. Some things you hang on the wall, others you log into.”
- Chasen, Turntable.fm
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Coming from a couple of stand-still projects (Betaworks, Stickybits), he got his big break when he came up with the concept of Turntable.fm, a shared interactive music-listening service that earned about 1 million users five months after
its launch.
“Don’t let people tell you your ideas are stupid. If you are really passionate about something, find a way to build it.” -Dennis Crowley, Foursquare
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He developed Foursquare based on his first entrepreneurial endeavor Dodgeball. Foursquare is the go-to application to see and be seen at your favorite music hotspots, offering location-based social networking services via mobile devices.
“We have all these inputs, we have all these places that we could go – all these things that we could do – but we need to present one cohesive story to the world.” -Jack Dorsey, Twitter
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He is the man who allowed fans to follow every word and thought of their favorite celebrities – that is, if they wish to tweet it. Twitter has become the real-time medium to voice the latest generation, where anyone who dares to follow you can find out exactly how we are entertaining ourselves and/or pretending to be more interesting.
“We worked really hard to make it easy for people to share their lives in a beautiful way. It is one thing to share a photo; it’s another for that photo to look gorgeous.” -Kevin Systrom, Instagram
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As the co-founder and CEO of Instagram, he has allowed tech users (including musicians and artists) to share their world in new and interesting ways through a free photo sharing program, which features digital filters and a variety of social networking services. In its largest acquisition deal up to date, they gained approximately $1 billion in cash and stock in April after being acquired by Facebook.
“We’re starting to see that anyone with an Internet connection, a digital camera and computer can become a star overnight.” -Steve Chen, YouTube
FTD:Many people aspire to be a star, and this man found the means to make these dreams become reality by co-founding video-based website YouTube. Now anybody can show off their hidden talents to world, and even get the chance to be discovered like Justin Beiber, whose music career began when talent manager Scooter Braun picked him up in 2008 after seeing his YouTube videos.
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