[Raised $143.5 million] Ep.92 - The First 100 with Chris Barton, the co-founder of Shazam | Founder of Guard | Keynote Speaker

My guest today is Chris Barton, the co-founder of Shazam, which was created due to Chris’ frustration with being unable to identify a song he heard while at a club in San Francisco in 1999. Shazam Entertainment has raised $143.5M. In 2018, Apple bought the music recognition startup and app Shazam for about $400 million. I doubt anyone who doesn’t like music hasn’t used Shazam. Chris Barton founded the app Shazam twenty years ago, in 2002, years before the iPod and iTunes had even been created...