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    11 months ago

    Yea it’s a music centric site now, right?

    Edit: I was curious so I looked it up. They either have 6-10 employees and 1-5M in revenue, or 523 employees and 84.2M in revenue, depending on whether you misspell ‘employees’ in the search or not (on bing).

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      511 months ago

      I don’t remember the specific article I read that dove into this but it was essentially sold due to it being one of the first large data collections (user data). I’m not sure the extent its traweled now but before the social media machine took off, it was the largest if not one of the largest concentrations of actual data points to run algorithms against.

      • @TopRamenBinLaden
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        211 months ago

        Justin Timberlake owns like half of it nowadays.