You could listen on your iPod, but I’d be sitting in this Starbucks in Chicago and I wanted to share a song with someone and there wasn’t a way of doing that, so I made it. I realized that music wasn’t particularly social. When Green Day came on the radio, I would say, “turn that off.”īut then one day I was like, “What is that Green Day thing anyway?” I traveled around the world playing music in an orchestra. In high school I was a complete classical music snob. What inspired you to create it?Īza Raskin: I was 22 or 23 at the time. We caught up with Raskin to ask him what it felt like to see his project get bought by Google.īusiness Insider: Tells us about Songza. I’m not the smartest mathematician, or physicist," he says but it is that combination of these fields that makes him come up with "unique" ideas. "So if you want to have great ideas, learn lots of fields and then combine. "Great ideas are almost always great ideas in hindsight," Aza Raskin tells us. He's also the son of Apple Macintosh creator Jef Raskin. Raskin's creativity could be in his genes. He later launched health app startup "Massive Health" acquired by Jawbone in 2013 and now he's the VP of Innovation at Jawbone.Īlong the way he wrote the first "geolocation" spec for the web (mapping locations of objects), created a new way to prevent certain types of phishing attacks, and founded Bloxes, a startup that builds cool things out of cardboard.Īnd he did all that as a high school dropout, skipping straight to college, where he studied mathematics and physics. At Mozilla, he was the creative lead on the Firefox browser he worked on the mobile browser and other projects. That led to a startup called Humanized, bought by Mozilla in 2008. When he was 20, he built a human interface for computers similar to Siri and used by typing your question or command, not speaking it. He sold it back in 2008 to Amazon-backed Amie Street.īut he had been creating cool things long before that. Raskin wasn't involved in Songza at the time. It often indicates a user profile.Īza Raskin, 30, is the guy behind a lot of the coolest stuff on the internet, from our browsers to our music, to our health tech toys.Īt age 23, he invented song-sharing site Songza, bought by Google last month for an undisclosed sum. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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