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

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Songbird

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Sources

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