Robert Reid (Author)

Robert Reid (2012)

Robert Reid (born October 2, 1966 in New York City ) is an American author and founder of the online music service Rhapsody .

Life

Reid grew up in Darien , Connecticut . He studied Arabic and International Relations at Stanford University and has an MBA from Harvard . In 1994 Reid moved to Silicon Valley to work for Silicon Graphics , where he managed the relationship with Netscape . He is married to technology journalist Morgan Webb .

author

Reid is the author of three books, the first of which, Year One, is about his time at Harvard. His second work, Architects of the Web, reports on the rise of Internet companies and related players such as Marc Andreessen from Netscape, Jerry Yang from Yahoo and Rob Glaser from RealNetworks . His third book is part of the science fiction genre and deals with the topic of pirated music .

Year One: An Intimate Look Inside Harvard Business School . John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1997, ISBN 978-0-471-17187-4 (English).
Architects of the Web. 1000 Days that Built the Future of Business . Heyne Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-453-52991-5 (English).
Galaxy Tunes® . Heyne Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-453-52991-5 (Original title: Year Zero .).
After on . Del Rey, 2018, ISBN 978-1-5247-9807-9 (English).

Entrepreneur

Reid is the founder of the online music company Listen.com . In 2001 Listen.com started the music service Rhapsody. In 2003, Listen.com was acquired by RealNetworks, with Reid becoming vice president of the company.

1999 Reid a director of IGN Entertainment , in September 2005 the company was at News Corp. sold.

Quotes

"[The first MP3 player] was a big Christmas hit, because what little hoodlum wouldn't want a million and a half bucks-worth of stolen goods in his pocket?"

- Rob Reid

Web links

Robert Reid in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
Works by and about Robert Reid (Author) at Open Library
Homepage of Robert Reid. In: readrobreid.com. Retrieved January 2, 2013 .

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Speakers Rob Reid: Author, entrepreneur. In: ted.com . Retrieved January 2, 2013 .
↑ David Kirkpatrick: The sage of how the web was won a bunch of outlaw entrepreneurs got a head start in the rush to conquer the internet. Then Bill Gates rode into town. In: CNN . July 7, 1997, accessed January 2, 2013 .
↑ RealNetworks to Acquire Listen.com. In: econtentmag.com. April 22, 2003, accessed January 2, 2013 .
^ News Corp. Acquires IGN for $ 650 million. In: Bloomberg Businessweek . September 10, 2005, accessed January 2, 2013 .

personal data
SURNAME	Reid, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American author and founder of the online music service Rhapsody
DATE OF BIRTH	2nd October 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City , New York , United States

[ted.com-1] A ^b Speakers Rob Reid: Author, entrepreneur. In: ted.com . Retrieved January 2, 2013 .

[2] David Kirkpatrick: The sage of how the web was won a bunch of outlaw entrepreneurs got a head start in the rush to conquer the internet. Then Bill Gates rode into town. In: CNN . July 7, 1997, accessed January 2, 2013 .

[3] RealNetworks to Acquire Listen.com. In: econtentmag.com. April 22, 2003, accessed January 2, 2013 .

[4] News Corp. Acquires IGN for $ 650 million. In: Bloomberg Businessweek . September 10, 2005, accessed January 2, 2013 .