The two minds behind the turn of the millennium have popular music
file-sharing platform Napster did for a second time to start a business
together. Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, who was involved in for Napster
in the development of Facebook and are still engaged in Spotify is
collected, a pre-8.3 million-dollar venture capital for their new
project. It secured for information from Techcrunch many prominent
investment firms and individual shares in the startup, including the
Google vice president Marissa Mayer, the actor Ashton Kutcher, the
Russian billionaire Yuri Milnerder, the Founders Fund and TechCrunch
founder Michael Arrington.
Airtime, so the name of the startup, should be conceptually similar to
chat roulette. As with the Russian model should be arranged through the
service each video chats between strangers. Thus, the founders want to
differentiate their services, but also to existing social networks ". If
Facebook is about identity, about the people you already know it's less
about meeting new people," Parker said. For details of the project,
expressed Parker and Fanning is not even a timetable for the launch of
the site is still pending.
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