Pandora Co-founder Tim Westergren gave a great talk today at Sloan.  Some of the highlights included his description of founding the company two weeks before the dotcom crash, the Music Genome Project, and the future of the music business. 

If you haven’t tried Pandora it will change the way you discover music.  Pandora rates songs on 400 characteristics.  When you add artists or songs to your playlist the system will play similar music.  This is dramatically different from other systems that primarily rely on ratings from other users.  The site is free so give it a try. 

 Tim will also be speaking tonight at a Town Hall meeting on BU campus.  Check out the Pandora blog for more info.