Sean Parker launches new project
Another relatively young man, but already a legendary person in the Internet world, Sean Parker, best known as one of the creators of Napster (the first P2P service) and played in Justin Timberlake’s wonderful David Fincher film Social Network, will present its new project to the public on June 5 Airtime
The essence of AirTime, in principle, is not revolutionary - it is a social network where the key element will be the communication of participants via video chat: creating groups of events, discussing news, etc., but only in the most interactive mode provided by the webcam and microphone of the user's device . In other words, that is what has recently been intensively promoting and improving Google in the HangOuts service on its social network.
However, AirTime has already received significant funding from a number of venture capital funds, such as Andreessen Horowitz, Accel Partners, Social + Capital, and even Google Ventures. Also in the round was attended by Yuri Milner - founder of Mail.ru Group and DST Global. All this made it possible for a new startup to receive an amount of $ 25 million.
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Thus, even a neglected startup from the legendary creators easily collected money from a number of more than serious investors, which makes one think about the old rule of an already created legend. Parker, who created Napster and was the president of Facebook before 2005, can actually afford to create fairly ordinary projects (although, if you recall Chatroulette from Moscow schoolboy Andrei Ternovsky, the opinion may change). It can be assumed that the key factor for investment here was probably not the innovativeness of the project or its certain social component, namely the legendary Parker personality as such.
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The essence of AirTime, in principle, is not revolutionary - it is a social network where the key element will be the communication of participants via video chat: creating groups of events, discussing news, etc., but only in the most interactive mode provided by the webcam and microphone of the user's device . In other words, that is what has recently been intensively promoting and improving Google in the HangOuts service on its social network.
However, AirTime has already received significant funding from a number of venture capital funds, such as Andreessen Horowitz, Accel Partners, Social + Capital, and even Google Ventures. Also in the round was attended by Yuri Milner - founder of Mail.ru Group and DST Global. All this made it possible for a new startup to receive an amount of $ 25 million.
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Thus, even a neglected startup from the legendary creators easily collected money from a number of more than serious investors, which makes one think about the old rule of an already created legend. Parker, who created Napster and was the president of Facebook before 2005, can actually afford to create fairly ordinary projects (although, if you recall Chatroulette from Moscow schoolboy Andrei Ternovsky, the opinion may change). It can be assumed that the key factor for investment here was probably not the innovativeness of the project or its certain social component, namely the legendary Parker personality as such.
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