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I was reading abt rdio earlier - it was the first streaming app before Spotify or Tidal. I did not know abt them until today but quite the story on how it all went down - Casey Newton on the The Verge said “ From the start, Rdio had more product sense than business sense, and its cautious approach to growth and marketing would ultimately spell its doom.”

They were making abt 4M rev and 2M loss monthly over a subscription model of 9.99 per mth. The whole bit investment and sales was pretty confusing as the majority share holder which was not the founder decided to sell the business to Pandora, and in order for Pandora to own the assets, they had to file for bankruptcy, and hence why Rdio went under (There’s more twist to this).

I don’t know if anyone has used rdio or remember this but seems like it was a pretty big deal back then - if you recall this happy to hear your stories on it

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plor 2y ago

I remember the name Rdio, but I don't think I ever used them. Another one worth checking out from around that time was called Lala. It allowed streaming music you already owned for free and buying what you didn't for cheap. It was a cool web app until Apple bought them and killed the product. Supposedly it was a tech play, but I think they were just trying to kill competitors to iTunes.

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