Shazam was acquired by Apple in 2018, for a speculated $400 million USD and is now integrated into Siri. Chris has started three companies including his most recent one which is focused on saving lives using computer vision and machine learning. Founder of Shazam, leading expert in mobile applications, successful entrepreneur and startup advisor. Check his availability to speak. LOS ANGELES — When Chris Barton and his friends came up with the idea of Shazam in 1999 — to allow for mobile identification of any song, anywhere — it was years before smartphones and mobile apps, the top sound technicians at Stanford and MIT told them it was flatly impossible to pull off, and one of the day’s top venture capitalists openly scoffed at the idea: “I don’t see why.
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Chris Barton is a well-respected entrepreneur with a super creative mind that anticipated the mobile future and transformed music discovery through the invention of the first mobile artificial intelligence application: Shazam!
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Shazam is a music recognition app with over 1 billion downloads and that recognizes tens of millions of songs from around the world and across music genres. It was acquired by Apple in 2018 for a speculated $400 million price tag and is now integrated into Siri.
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