-
Shawnn Fanning was born in Brockton, MA.
-
Fanning released a preliminary beta program of Napster and soon, hundreds of college students at Northeastern were trading music furiously
-
Northeastern/Northwestern University
-
Fanning was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
American computer programmer, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor.
