| Birthplace | Brockton, MA |
| Birthdate | 11/20/80 |
Shawn Fanning created Napster in 1998 while attending Northeastern University. Fanning has since founded SNOCAP, a B2B Music Distributor, in 2003, and Rupture, an MMORPG social network in 2006, which was subsequently sold to Electronic Arts.