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Pioneers of the Inevitable

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Pioneers of the Inevitable is a group of designers and developers who believe in the promise of an open customizable media player. In the past, some members of the team have worked on Winamp, Yahoo! Music Jukebox, Netscape Navigator, and Mozilla Firefox. Pioneers was founded in the summer of 2006.

Milestones

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  Pioneers of the Inevitable received $2.02M in Unattributed funding. (1/27/10)
  Posted 1/27/10 at 2:31pm
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  Pioneers of the Inevitable received $8M in Seed funding. (12/1/06)
  Posted 10/30/07 at 9:42am
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  Pioneers of the Inevitable added Rob Lord as founder, board of directors.
  Posted 9/8/09 at 1:12pm
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  Pioneers of the Inevitable added Jan Leger as Dir. Quality Assurance.
  Posted 9/8/09 at 1:14pm
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  Pioneers of the Inevitable added Ethan Bauman as Director of Strategic Development.
  Posted 9/8/09 at 1:14pm
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  Pioneers of the Inevitable added Rob Lord as Founder, Board of Directors.
  Posted 9/8/09 at 1:14pm
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  Pioneers of the Inevitable added Georges Auberger as VP Engineering.
  Posted 9/8/09 at 1:14pm
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  Pioneers of the Inevitable added Jerrell Jimerson as CEO.
  Posted 9/8/09 at 1:14pm
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  Pioneers of the Inevitable added Jeff Fagnan as Board.
  Posted 9/8/09 at 1:14pm
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  Pioneers of the Inevitable added Babak Nivi as Vice-President.
  Posted 5/15/08 at 1:13pm
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  Pioneers of the Inevitable added Daniel Raffel as Director of Product Management.
  Posted 4/27/08 at 4:10pm
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  Pioneers of the Inevitable added Mark Jung as CEO/Chairman of the Board.
  Posted 4/27/08 at 4:10pm
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  Pioneers of the Inevitable added Babak Nivi as Advisor.
  Posted 2/26/08 at 6:03pm
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  Pioneers of the Inevitable added Rob Lord as CEO, Founder.
  Posted 10/30/07 at 9:25am
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  Pioneers of the Inevitable added Josh Aas as Advisor.
  Posted 10/30/07 at 9:19am
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  Pioneers of the Inevitable added Aaron Boodman as Advisor.
  Posted 10/30/07 at 9:18am

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Products

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Songbird

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Website	getsongbird.com
Blog	blog.songbirdnest.com
Stage	Live
Launch Date	March 1, 2007
Tags	music-player

Songbird is the flagship product built by Pioneers of the Inevitable. It is an open-source customizable music player powered by Mozilla.

Above: Songbird Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08

Above: Songbird
Uploaded: 8/23/08

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Sources

1. Songbird, a browser-integrated media player, received $8M last year (venturebeat.com) [edit]
2. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]