Team Recommended By
For Jim Pitkow
For Jeff Fagnan
For Naval Ravikant
Babak Nivi
If he will pay for shares in your company, give him the shares. If he will take them for free, give him the shares. Just give him the shares. I did.
Aydin Senkut
Naval is one of the best seed investors I worked with: always prompt to follow up, and one of the best viral marketing experts around.
Desi McAdam
Nivi is an extraordinary individual and a great guy to work with.
Naval Ravikant
Nivi is rational, honest, and fearless. If you are a road, get underneath him. If you are money, get in his pocket. If you are a wall, get out of his way. I saw him take Venture Hacks from a random idea to the site and blog you see today, through sheer relentlessness. I’d back him on any thing, any day.
Aydin Senkut
Prolific angel investor – very connected. Always a pleasure to co-invest with. Very entrepreneur friendly.
Babak Nivi
I started working with Rob and the Songbird team within 24 hours of meeting them. He is a friend who has supported me ever since then—whether or not he had the time to do it, whether or not I deserved it. He is on the very short list of people I introduce entrepreneurs to. He is also on the very short list of people I would bail out of jail at 4 in the morning.
Farbood Nivi
Rob is a Wizard. He lives backwards through time. He makes now, what he wants to be then.
Naval Ravikant
Rob is a cheerful, visionary founder. This guy will keep starting companies until they run out of companies to start.
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About Us
Some people call Songbird the ‘Firefox of Media Players’.
iTunes is great, but how do you get a video off YouTube and put it on your Blackberry? How do you get music off MySpace and put it on your iPod? We’ve opened up the media player so users can get media from any source and put it on any device.
Pre-release versions of Songbird have already been installed over 500,000 times.
The company was founded by Rob Lord who previously built Winamp (AOL), Mediacode (Yahoo!), and IUMA (BMG).
Finally, our lead investor is Sequoia, just like Google, Apple, and Intel. (And YouTube, Cisco, and Oracle.) Other investors include Atlas Venture.
Jeff gave me my first job when I dropped out of the Ph.D. program in 2000. We have been working together ever since; on companies like Songbird and Veracode. He was crazy enough to support me as an EIR at Atlas Venture while we were working on Venture Hacks. He is an entrepreneur-friendly investor to the extreme. His secret power is instinctively finding win-win solutions. Get Jeff on your board—I did.