This Week in Startups - Video

E533: Inventor entrepreneur Michael Robertson (DAR.fm, MP3.com) debuts 6 Seconds, a free mobile search engine


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On the show today: a debut! Michael Robertson, inventor, entrepreneur, and CEO/founder of DAR.fm and MP3.com, is in the studio to launch his brand-new product. 6 Seconds is a free, mobile, powerful search engine that plays songs from any radio station, at any time, in any country around the globe. Michael walks us through his innovation, explaining its advantages over all existing music services (hint: unlimited number of skips & selection) and bold vision. Jason and Michael dive into a rich conversation dissecting the major listening platforms, both broadcast and interactive (look out Pandora, Spotify, and TIDAL), the cross-pollination of politics and technology, Google and the difference between monopoly and market share dominance, why one day smart kids will stop going to college, the inevitability of taxing robots, the unsolvable riddle of the minimum wage, the Walking Dead, drug wars, how creativity is torpedoed in the music biz, are we in a bubble or what? -- and much more.
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This Week in Startups - VideoBy Jason Calacanis