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Re:Pandora to Buy Rdio Assets for $75M, Rdio Files Ch.11, Wi... by GBond on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @12:23PM (#10582572)
Do you think lack of founder attention negatively impacted lack of progress on the partnership/BD side? Seem to be key in the market (Spotify with Starbucks; Pandora in-car app).

Sad to see the "best" product in the market go under.

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Re:Pandora to Buy Rdio Assets for $75M, Rdio Files Ch.11, Wi... by rekoros on Thursday November 19, 2015 @04:10PM (#10597697)
Absolutely.

Rdio had insane product talent but no business captain (this can only be an obsessed founder, pre-success).

With normal startups, they just fail off the bat in this scenario.

Rdio had enough money to hide the lack of captain issue for a really long time.

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