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Discover music with friends.

Music of the people, by the people, for me ™

We invite every music lover to participate in a more democratic music industry. By rating, recommending, or simply by listening to music, you'll impact what gets recommended to others. Our services include:

- social music discovery
Discover and share playlists, new music that matches your tastes, and concerts by your favorite artists. The iLike Sidebar* scans your music library, recommends new music, and helps you connect musically with your friends and the broader iLike community. (*Windows Media Player support now available.)
- artist services platform - Post Once, Publish Everywhere
To learn more about iLike's free suite of services to help artists build viral fan communities on Facebook and beyond, visit www.iLike.com/forartists. Also, see which leading artists use iLike Artist Services to reach their fans.
- iLike on facebook
Add music to your profile, discover concerts by your favorite artists, and see what music and concerts your friends like.
- artist community
Where ordinary listeners pick the hits. 1,000 radio partners. Take a quick tour of GarageBand.
- broadcaster community
Personal broadcasting made simple.

About iLike

iLike is the Web's leading social music discovery service and the dominant music application on the Facebook®, hi5 and Bebo platforms. With more than 25 million registered users, iLike helps people share music recommendations, playlists, and personalized concert alerts. The iLike Sidebar for iTunes and Windows Media Player suggests new music, creates automatic playlists, and connects people through music. iLike offers musicians and labels a Universal Artist Dashboard™ from which to reach fans and manage their presence across multiple channels: Facebook, hi5, Bebo, iLike.com, Ask.com, iLike Sidebar plugins for iTunes and Windows Media Player, and iLike’s iPhone application. By leveraging iLike's "artist-fan graph," a vast database of connections between consumers and their favorite artists, iLike helps artists reach their fans and cultivate the viral spread of their music. iLike, inc also runs indie music site GarageBand.com.

For a peek behind the scenes, check out our team blog.

iLike People

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Ali Partovi

CEO

Prior to iLike, Ali established himself as an entrepreneur by co-founding LinkExchange, which was acquired by Microsoft for $265 million in 1998. Ali also co-founded "DrinkExchange," a monthly social event that spread from San Francisco to Washington, London, Tokyo, and Sydney. After leaving Microsoft, Ali co-wrote a feature film and started a band, both of which failed.

In 2002 Ali led the effort to save GarageBand.com from being shut down and has been with the company since. In 2006 Ali recruited his twin brother Hadi to help start iLike, and today they run iLike (which owns GarageBand) together. Ali is an avid music lover and wannabe guitarist. See hi-res photo here
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Hadi Partovi

President

Hadi established himself as a talented leader during the browser wars: he was Group Program Manager for Internet Explorer. After the release of IE 5.0, Hadi co-founded Tellme Networks and spearheaded the company's shift from consumer services to enterprise call-center automation and delivering directory and customer-care services for AT&T, FedEx, E*TRADE, and more. Tellme Networks was later acquired by Microsoft (for a reported $800 million). Before joining GarageBand, Hadi was General Manager of MSN.com, where he delivered 30% annual growth and incubated Start.com (now Live.com). Hadi has also served as strategic advisor to numerous startups including The Facebook, Edusoft (acquired by Houghton Mifflin), and 2Web Technologies (now Google Spreadsheets).

A graduate of Harvard University, Hadi enjoys skiing, kayaking, guitar, and grabscrab.

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Nat Brown

CTO

Nat rapidly earned a reputation as one of Microsoft's foremost technical minds by creating and evangelizing the ActiveX/COM object model in the early 90s. He went on to play a seminal role in the creation of XML, DHTML, and the first XBox. After retiring from Microsoft, he served briefly as CTO at CAC Media and has informally advised numerous startups.
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Matthew Sewell

GarageBand Guru

When Matthew officially joined GarageBand.com's staff in 2006, he had already been an indispensable contributor to the company for many years. Matthew earned the respect and trust of the GarageBand community by serving as volunteer moderator of the company's discussion boards. His intimate knowledge of the community's needs combined with his technical background led him to get involved in product development and eventually to join the company full-time. Matthew serves as the liason between the GarageBand community and the engineering team.
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Emily Glassman

Priestess of PR

Emily heads up iLike's PR and marketing communications.

A founding member of Amazon.com's pre-IPO publicity department, Emily went on to launch the company's entertainment marketing practice after successfully leading the PR in support of Amazon.com's music, video and DVD stores. After eight years at Amazon.com (1997-2004), Emily spent two years (2004-2006) managing the public relations efforts in support of the launch and development of Starbucks' highly visible music strategy. Emily has received industry awards recognizing her work pioneering online events that leveraged exclusive celebrity content to drive online traffic and product sales.

Emily devotes her free time to seeing live music and pursuing adventure travel. Recent trip highlights include climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro (while listening to her iPod!) and whitewater rafting the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, among the most formidable stretches of white water in North America (this time she left her electronic devices at home, but participated in nightly guitar sessions by the campfire to get her daily music fix).

Directors

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Jerry Harrison

Talking Head, producer

Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Famer, multi-platinum producer, and Talking Heads keyboardist/guitarist, Jerry Harrison can be credited with co-founding the original GarageBand.com in 1999. Jerry's recent production work includes: Stories of a Stranger by O.A.R., the surround remixes and re-mastering of all the Talking Heads' albums, which won four awards at the recent Surround Awards, and the CD and film: Ten Days Out, Blues From the Backroads which will be released and aired on PBS this coming autumn.
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Sean Moriarty

President, Ticketmaster

Sean Moriarty is the President and Chief Executive Officer for Ticketmaster, the world's leading ticketing company. He is responsible for operational leadership of all aspects of Ticketmaster's worldwide business as well as global product and technology strategy and distribution channels across all business units.

Mr. Moriarty was an early member of the original Citysearch technology team and served Ticketmaster's predecessor, Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch, as Director of Internet Systems for Citysearch and Vice President of Internet Systems for both Citysearch and Ticketmaster.com. Since 1997, Mr. Moriarty has held progressive roles in the two companies including, Executive Vice President, Technology for Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch, and President and Chief Operating Officer, Ticketmaster.

Sean Moriarty serves on the Board of Directors of iLike.com as well as several technology advisory boards. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of South Carolina, was an Exchange Fellow at the University of Warwick, Coventry UK, and attended graduate school at Boston University and the University of South Carolina.
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Fred Davis

Davis Shapiro Lewit & Hayes

As founder of the leading music law firm Davis Shapiro Lewit & Hayes, Fred Davis’ firm represents some of today’s most successful and recognizable stars including Linkin Park, Usher and Kanye West. Fred is also one of the leading experts in the burgeoning area of digital music, rights and distribution. Besides iLike, his clients include YouTube, Joost, and Rhapsody. Fred served as Executive VP at EMI Records before he founded his current firm in 1997.
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Marc Bodnick

Elevation Partners

A co-founder of Elevation Partners, Marc has ten years of experience in private equity investing and especially in large-scale transactions. Prior to Elevation, Marc was a founding principal of Silver Lake Partners.
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Mark Sugarman

MHS Capital

A successful investor with over a decade of experience in private equity, Mark was one of the earliest investors in the turnaround operation that saved GarageBand from shutting down in 2002.

Advisory Board

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George Martin

Chairman - Beatle

Sir George Martin is the personification of artistic insight and originality. In 1962, he signed the Beatles and went on to produce their recordings for the next eight years. He worked with the available technology of the times to create new and unique sounds. Now this producer of 31 hit singles is Chairman of garageband.com's Advisory Board.

Sir George joined garageband.com in October of 1999. In recently reaffirming his commitment to the company, he had these words to share: "Since 1998, I've turned down hundreds of invitations to join Internet music companies. GarageBand.com is the only one I've agreed to work with, and I remain committed to their philosophy. The appeal of GarageBand.com is the unique way in which it focuses on the quality of songs and uses the Internet to find talented new groups, many of which would have stood little chance of being heard by industry pros in this age of label consolidation. Young talent remains very close to my heart, and I look forward to hearing some of the great new bands out there."

(photo of Sir George Martin by Robert Essel)
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Bob Pittman

Former AOL CEO, MTV founder

A titan of the entertainment, media, and internet industries, Bob Pittman started his illustrious career as a disc jockey in Mississippi. He established a reputation as a brilliant radio programmer through successive positions culminating with head of programming for WNBC Radio in NY in 1979.

Bob then led the visionary team that created MTV, and he served as President and CEO of MTV Networks (incl Nickelodeon and VH1) until 1987. Over the next eight years, Bob served as CEO of Quantum Media, Time Warner Enterprises, Six Flags Theme Parks, and Century 21 Real Estate Corporation successively.

In 1996 Bob joined AOL Networks as President and CEO. He served as COO of America Online Inc, later AOL Time Warner. Today, Bob runs the Pilot Group, a private investment firm.
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Vinod Khosla

VC extraordinaire

Vinod Khosla has repeatedly been labeled #1 venture capitalist in the world by Forbes. Prior to creating his own VC firm, Khosla Ventures, Vinod was a general partner at Kleiner Perkins, where he led investments in such blockbuster successes as Nexgen, Juniper Networks, Excite, Cerent, and participated in many others including Google, Amazon, AOL, and Netscape. Vinod Khosla co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 before joining Kleiner Perkins in 1986.
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David Goldberg

Head of Yahoo! Music

Dave is responsible for the growth and continued development of Yahoo! Music as a global music destination. Dave joined Yahoo! in Aug 2001 with the company's acquisition of LAUNCH Media, Inc. Before joining Yahoo!, he was Co-Founder and CEO of LAUNCH. He led the transition of LAUNCH to Yahoo! Music to become the web's #1 music site. Prior to founding LAUNCH, he was Dir. of Marketing Strategy and New Business development at Capitol Records, where he oversaw the development of new multimedia distribution methods and alternative channels for breaking new artists.
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Jennifer Leimgruber

SVP Premiere, Clear Channel

Jennifer joined Premiere Radio Networks, a division of Clear Channel Radio, in 1999 when the company completed its aquisition of MJI Broadcasting. At MJI Broadcasting since 1993, Jennifer lead the company's Affiliate Relations and Marketing team through its sale to Clear Channel, after which she moved behind the programmers desk and began focusing on the development and production of music-based syndicated radio properties. Premiere Radio Networks, Inc., a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, is the number one radio network in the country and syndicates over 70 radio programs and services to more than 5,000 radio affiliations and reaches over 190 million listeners weekly. In addition to working with Premiere's daily and weekly programs and personalities, like Steve Harvey, Carson Daly, Whoopie Goldberg and Donald Trump, Jennifer has brought to Premiere high profile programming opportunities like the US Radio broadcast of the Live 8 concerts and an unprecedented live call in program with The Rolling Stones.
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Dominic Sandifer

President, GreenLight Media, LLC

Dominic has been a leader in the branded entertainment field for over fifteen years. He recently partnered with music industry leader Coran Capshaw ( ATO Records, Redlight Management, Music Today, etc) to form GreenLight, an entertainment media and marketing company. Previous to GreenLight, Dominic led the Entertainment & Integrated Brand Marketing Group for TBA Global, a major branded content producer and marketing agency for Fortune 1000 companies including InBev, SAP, Chase, Nestle, Nike and McDonald's., as well as having headed Universal Music Group/IGA's Strategic Marketing team. While at UMG Dominic helped develop music-driven marketing strategies for major brands including Coca-Cola, XBox, and Apple and aided in the creation of tie-ins between artists and brands such as Sting/AOL Broadband and the innovative Black Eyed Peas/Apple iTunes campaign launch. Dominic led UMG's participation in the launch of Coca Cola Classic's successful integrated marketing program for its "Real" campaign. Dominic has also served as EVP of Mandalay Branded Entertainment, a division of Mandalay Entertainment Group, where he conceived and produced 65 episodes of the award winning "Go For It" series on ABC Family. He is the founder of The McSand Group ( before its acquisition by Mandalay), as well as the Men's Guild for Children's Hospital Los Angeles.