Dec. 15, 2020
150: Lessons from building Shazam - Dhiraj Mukherjee, Cofounder of Shazam and Angel Investor
The founder of Shazam, Dheeraj Mukherjee, joins the podcast as we get to hear a really inspiring story with tons of lessons.
Dhiraj will share to us the whole story of how he built the business with his partners. How they figured out how to build the app when none of them could even code and just turning the whole thing into a reality. And then actually being able to grow the business and exit and just all the trials and tribulations along the way.
Dhiraj Mukherjee
Dhiraj Mukherjee is a Co-Founder of Shazam, and an experienced digital business executive with a proven track record in both corporate and start-up environments.
In 2000, he co-founded Shazam Entertainment, the world’s first mobile phone-based music recognition service. He was a Director of Shazam from 2000-2003, and raised £600,000 in seed funding and over £10 million in venture capital investment over three rounds. Shazam was acquired by Apple in 2017 for a reported $400 million.
He is now an active angel investor focused on emerging technologies and “Tech for Good,” and was selected for Smith & Williamson’s “Power 100” in 2017 for supporting innovation and entrepreneurship in the U.K.
Dhiraj
Connect with Dhiraj on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhirajmukherjee/)
Website (https://dhirajmukherjee.com/)
Twitter (https://twitter.com/dhirajm)
Shazam (https://www.shazam.com/)
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