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- ▶ 20:19 David Rosenthal Probably on Winamp, which is how everybody listened to MP-III's that you got from Napster back in the day.
- ▶ 20:40 Ben Gilbert But everyone used Winamp.
- ▶ 20:44 David Rosenthal And in fact, AOL, I think, would acquire Winamp a couple years later.
- ▶ 20:50 David Rosenthal So, legend has it, Mark is listening to a playlist in Winamp one day during his senior year, and he gets to the end of the playlist, and he's like, why did the music stop?
- ▶ 21:01 David Rosenthal I listen to so much music all the time on Winamp, it should just know what I like and automatically pick the next song.
- ▶ 21:17 David Rosenthal An AI DJ plugin for Winamp, and they call this Synapse, and like, they did it!
- ▶ 21:24 David Rosenthal These two high school kids, they build an AI, you know, very AI, it wasn't called AI at the time, but like a, you know, a recommender system that looks at the data of what songs you've consumed on Winamp and predicts what song you're gonna…
- ▶ 21:52 David Rosenthal It starts getting some adoption, and, um, a couple companies, including Winamp itself, reach out to Mark and Adam and are like, hey, do you want to come work here?