Matt Kliemannmtkliema

Product

identify audio

100 uniquemonthly users

15 billion songidentifications

Financial

Valuation ~ $1 billionRevenue (2013) ~ €31 million How?Costs (2013) ~ €33 millionProfit (2013) ~ (€2 million)

HistoryInghelbrecht and Barton - visionariesAvery Wang - technical - Stanford PhD

Essence “Almost every company starts off as a feature or product.” - Chris Barton

Secret Sauce I - fingerprinting

Secret Sauce II - score & matching

What’s Hotreal time TV show identificationTV AdvertisingNvidia CUDASiri Integration

CompetitionGracenote - used by auto, musiXmatch, MTVSoundhound - allows “query by humming”Competitor characteristics:● both offer fingerprinting● slower ● less accurate with noise● smaller userbase● less advertising integration

Future Prediction - “Shazamed”More Advertising:

Image Recognition advertising-bad idea - Amazon Fire Phone

iBeacon advertising -good idea - large userbase useful

POSITIVE OUTLOOK