Chris Barton wanted a way to identify songs anywhere he heard them. There wasn’t one – so he invented an app called Shazam. Chris’s creation is nothing short of pure magic. Chris seeks to delight people by using technology to make seemingly impossible ideas come to life.
Chris in Brief
- Founder and creator of Shazam, the 1st mass consumer AI product in history
- Apple’s 6th largest acquisition – over 2 billion downloads, 100 billion songs Shazamed
- Three-time startup founder and advisor/investor to startups
- First head of Mobile relations at Google
- One of the first 100 employees at Dropbox
- Inventor of 12 patents (one used within Google algorithm)
- Teaches innovation & entrepreneurship in 4 online universities
