5 posts and columns on Richard Jones

Tuning Out: Last.fm Founders Leave Two Years After Selling to CBS

in Media on June 10, 2009 at 8:43 am PT

The founders of Last.fm, the London-based Web music start-up CBS snapped up for $280 million two years ago, are leaving the company. No word yet on whom CBS will appoint to replace the founding trio of Felix Miller, Richard Jones and Martin Stiksel, or what any of the men intend to do next. Miller announced the deal in a short blog post today. More shortly….

AAPLsauce, Part II

in News on January 23, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

AAPLsauce, Part II

in News on January 23, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

Last.fm Founder Takes Top Honors in First Annual Mark Zuckerberg Hyperbole Competition

in News on January 23, 2008 at 10:56 am PT

Looks like Last.fm co-founder Richard Jones and Facebook founder Mark “Once every hundred years media changes” Zuckerberg have at least one thing in common: a penchant for new-economy hyperbole. Announcing the debut of Last.fm’s “unprecedented” on-demand music streaming platform, Jones–in a moment of Zuckerbergian grandiosity–proclaimed: Today we’re redesigning the music economy.” Which will no doubt [...]