About the book
When he was seventeen, Shawn Fanning wrote a program that turned the Internet into a free music library, and his company, Napster, soon drew tens of millions of young users, while Time magazine put Fanning on its cover. The music industry answered with a fight that spread to major entertainment and technology companies. Joseph Menn draws on access to Fanning and to other Napster and music executives, plus internal emails and unpublished court records. He reveals secret takeover and settlement talks, the hidden role of Fanning's uncle in controlling the company, and infighting that reached the top of the German media giant Bertelsmann. The story sets hacker and investor culture against the copyright establishment.
Yaro Starak, founder of Entrepreneurs-Journey.com, said he read about the rise of Napster and how it then crashed and burned.
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Yaro Starak (Founder/Entrepreneurs-Journey.com)
Lots of other stories. Like, I read the Hershey story, how Hershey’s got started. I read the Cadbury story about the Cadbury chocolates got started. As you can see, there’s a bit of a trend here: coffee and chocolate with Starbucks. I read about how Napster got started and crashed and burned.
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