Pandora founder Tim Westergren on the future of streaming

Channels with Peter Kafka

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4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Pandora founder and former CEO Tim Westergren is back in the music business with Sessions, a live-streaming service well-timed for the pandemic. He talks with Recode’s Peter Kafka about what happens when people start seeing live shows in person again - and the lessons he learned running a music service that used to be ubiquitous, but got side-swiped by Spotify and the on-demand era. Featuring: Tim Westergren (@timwestergren), founder of Pandora & co-founder of Sessions Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:37.5	This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka.
1:39.6	That is me.
1:40.5	And I'm talking to Tim Westrogan, who is the founder of Pandora and co-founder of Sessions.
1:48.4	And when I first met him, so long ago, he was the founder of the Music Genome Project,
1:54.3	which means we're both very old.
1:55.9	And we've known each other for a long time.
1:57.5	I'm nice to see you.
1:58.5	And good to be here, Peter.
1:59.5	We'll go back in history, but why don't you tell us what you're doing now? It's a live streaming music platform. Yeah, so, you know, I didn't think I'd get back into music, to be honest, after you know. Everyone who was in digital music says, I will never go back. I thought I really meant it, but yeah, so the company is called Sessions.
2:18.3	The product is, it's kind of a marriage of live streaming and virtual gaming.
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