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Shawn Fanning

By Emiiiiii

  • Birth of Fanning

    Birth of Fanning
    Shawnn Fanning was born in Brockton, MA.

  • Napster

    Napster
    Fanning released a preliminary beta program of Napster and soon, hundreds of college students at Northeastern were trading music furiously

  • Education

    Education
    Northeastern/Northwestern University

  • Snocap

    Snocap
    Fanning was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.

  • Snocap

    Snocap
    he opened a new company, Snocap, along with Jordan Mendelson (Napster's Chief Architect), and Ron Conway. The company aspired to be a legitimate marketplace for digital media.

  • Rupture

    Rupture
    Fanning developed Rupture, a social networking tool designed to handle the task of publishing gamers' individual profiles to a communal space and facilitating communication between World of Warcraft players. Rupture was later acquired by Electronic Arts for $15 million.

  • Path

    Path
    A few months after Fanning was laid off from Electronic Arts, he started a new company called Path.com. In January 2010, Dave Morin announced he was leaving Facebook, where he was a Senior Platform Manager, to join Fanning and become CEO at Path.

  • Current Occupation

    Current Occupation
    American computer programmer, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor.