The Inside Story On Why Kevin Rose Never Had A Big Hit. Connaissez-vous Simon Istolainen ? Aprés mymajorcompany Simon lance peopleforcinema … Simon est déjà passé au billautshow en 2008 à l'occasion du lancement avec le fils de Goldman de mymajorcompany.
Plateforme d'un genre nouveau (à l'époque) qui permettaient aux internautes de financer des artistes inconnus, qui se présentaient à leurs suffrages sur la dite plateforme. C'est ainsi que Grégoire (qui a vendu 800.000 disques, financés par presque 400 internautes) est devenu une star qui chante maintenant avec les Enfoirés. C'est dire… Le tout sans passer par les majors 1.0. Amazon's Pivot. When Amazon.com anointed itself "the world’s biggest bookstore," with 1 million titles as it launched in 1995, Jeff Bezos, the company’s now-iconic founder, was already thinking about other markets to attack. Bezos never considered sticking solely to books. He wanted to rule e-commerce, which in the mid-'90s amounted to a rounding error on the balance sheets of major retailers.
Which explains why three years later a troupe of Amazon publicists visited the forbes.com offices where I worked to offer me a personal demonstration of Amazon’s new music store. Unlike today, Amazon.com actually courted press coverage back then, just like every other dot com. At the time there were a number of sites peddling compact discs, most notably CDNow and Music Boulevard, with the tongue-twisty domain name musicblvd.com.