Chris Barton Biography

Chris Barton is an entrepreneur speaker co-founder and Board Director of Shazam and expert in mobile applications. At Shazam he helped guide the music discovery company from idea to profit as co-founder and Board Director. He has also worked eight years at Google focused on mobile and at Dropbox as head of mobile operators development. Now he follows his dream of advising passionate entrepreneurs who want to make the world a better place by speaking on entrepreneurship and advising a handful of startups. In addition he is embarking on his next startup venture.
Barton co-founded Shazam in 1999 with the original idea to identify songs with a mobile phone. Before smartphones people would call a number put their phone up to the radio and receive a text identifying the song.
When the company launched in 2002 Shazam had 2 million songs in its database and took 15 seconds to process a user’s request. Today Shazam’s app has been downloaded by over 1 billion people globally. Now the app takes only a few seconds to identify songs from its database of over 30 million songs.

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