After Pandora acquired Next Big Sound I started thinking about the next decade. Where to live? What to do? Would I drive a minivan and rock a ponytail? I knew I wanted to start another company, and that I wanted to be thoughtful about the problem, solution, and lifestyle. …

The Story of Next Big Sound: 2008–2017 — In 2008 Alex White, Samir Rayani, and I set out to answer a question: how does a band become famous? We spent the next decade building the music analytics company Next Big Sound in pursuit of the answer. It was an insane, exciting, wouldn’t-trade-it-for-the-world experience where we tracked data on…

In the past year, my daughter was born, Liv and I got married, and I left the only job I’ve ever known at Next Big Sound and Pandora. My wife, daughter, and I are spending the next year traveling and trying our hand at some new projects. Right now we’re…

We’re thrilled to announce that Next Big Sound will be joining Pandora. For the past six years our mission has been to transform the music industry through making social, streaming, and sales data useful to artists and their teams. There is no better way to further our mission than to become part of the leading music service, Pandora, whose belief in the infinite power of music aligns completely with our own.

A Love Letter to the Fitbit Ultra, A Six Tracker Showdown, and My Dream Activity Tracker — In May 2013 at a Theophilus London show in Prospect Park I reached my hand down to my pocket to check my step count like I had hundreds of times before. This time my daily companion for the past year and a half, the Fitbit Ultra, was missing. I had…

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