Interview with iLike founder and CEO Ali Partovi
iLike helps consumers discover and share playlists, new music, and concerts that match their tastes. With a total of 50 million registered users and 31 million Facebook installations, iLike is the web’s leading social music discovery service and the dominant music application on the Facebook Platform.
Ali Partovi, iLike founder and an experienced entrepreneur, shares with us his experience of having to drive around Silicon Valley borrowing servers from other startups to meet Facebook’s explosive user growth, selling his previous startup LinkExchange to Microsoft for $265 million, having a twin brother who started TellMe (another startup recently acquired by Microsoft for $800 million). EscortZone
He’s done again, this time selling his company to MySpace!
(This interview was originally published in October 2007).
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