Tim Westergren
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"Timothy Brooks "Tim" Westergren", is a co-founder of Pandora Radio.

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It's like if your music is in Tower Records and no one knows it, you're nowhere. On the Internet, it's that times 100.

We administer an exam to people and we only have about 20% who pass. If you are selected, you then go through 40 hours of training. We're adding 8,000 new songs a month.

That's what the genome intends to do - to be that record-store clerk, in the small shop who knows you as a listener and has an encyclopedic knowledge of music. That's how you solve the long tail.