text: Grooveshark co-founder Josh Greenberg, a pioneer in Gainesville's student startup movement, was found dead in his bed Sunday evening by his girlfriend in the house they shared. He was 28. 
   
   Lori Greenberg, his mother, said Monday she was told by police who investigated Sunday night that there was no evidence of injuries or drugs. 
   
   She told police he had never been sick a day in his life; and his girlfriend, Abby Mayer, said she had never known him to be sick and he was not prescribed any medication, according to a Gainesville Police Department report. 
   
   Lori Greenberg, who lives in St. Petersburg, said the medical examiner's autopsy found no explanation for a cause of death, but toxicology results will take two or three months. 
   
   “They are as baffled as I am,” she said. 
   
   Mayer was away for the weekend and returned to find his body. According to the police report, she last spoke to him at 1:30 a.m. Sunday and called authorities around 7 p.m. after returning home with two friends. 
   
   “It looked like he was sleeping,” Lori Greenberg said. 
   
   She said her son was more relieved than depressed about the April 30 settlement that shut down Grooveshark since it ended the lawsuit that had been hanging over his head. Several record companies had sued the online music streaming service over copyright violations. 
   
   “He was excited about potential new things that he was going to start,” she said. 
   
   Greenberg and Sam Tarantino, both from the Tampa area, founded Grooveshark as 19-year-old freshmen at the University of Florida in March 2006. 
   
   At its peak, the company had up to 40 million users a month and 145 employees, occupying most of the second floor of the Union Street Station in downtown Gainesville and a small office in New York City. 
   
   Tarantino could not be reached for comment. 
   
   Greenberg was widely regarded as a mentor to budding entrepreneurs and computer programmers, helping people get started in the tech industry through Grooveshark University classes, the Summer with the Sharks internship program and as a partner in the Founders Pad business incubator. He was a founding member of the Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce's Gainesville Technology Council. 
   
   Chamber board Chairman John Carlson and interim president and CEO Susan Davenport issued a statement expressing the organization's sorrow. 
   
   “A true technology pioneer and visionary, Josh was co-founder of Grooveshark.com, which brought unprecedented tech opportunities to our region,” the statement read. “His contributions, which helped to lay our region's innovative technology foundation, will not be forgotten." 
   
   Duncan Kabinu said Greenberg was working on another music-related mobile application and they spent Friday together working on the Gainesville Dev Academy, which launched this summer to offer training in computer programming. Kabinu said they wanted to expand on Greenberg's Grooveshark University by offering it to the community so people could improve their skills and lives. 
   
   “I think it was just in him to be that guy to help people out,” Kabinu said. “He was always available, as busy as he was, to take the time to mentor people.” 
   
   In a prior interview, Augi Lye, founder of the tech companies Trendy Entertainment and ToneRite, said Grooveshark's fame helped put Gainesville on the map. 
   
   “I really don't know anyone who has had more influence than Josh, everything from being a visionary for the amazing technology coming out and training the next generation of developers and entrepreneurs,” he said. 
   
   Greenberg started MaidSuite with Student Maid founder Kristen Hadeed to provide an online scheduling application for cleaning companies and other service providers. 
   
   Hadeed said they made a pinky promise four years ago to do something together. 
   
   “I'm just so glad we did because I learned so much from working with him as such a good friend and just so talented,” she said. 
   
   “I think he's somebody that everybody looked up to. He inspired many people, even beyond his years. He will be missed beyond belief.” 
   
   Besides his mother, Greenberg is survived by his younger brother, Jacob, and grandparents, Jerry and Sandy Greenberg. Lori Greenberg said Josh's friends would arrange a memorial service in Gainesville. 
   
   She said her son had a keen intellect and a wonderful sense of humor. He was an animal lover who adored his three cats and was a vegetarian for ethical reasons. 
   
   Kabinu described his friend as “a legend.” 
   
   “It's weird to say that, but that's what I think of him because he embodied a lot of what Gainesville innovation and startups and entrepreneurship is for a lot of people,” Kabinu said. 
   
   “As a community, we definitely rallied behind him and we want to continue his legacy, so to speak, by continuing to be like he was — contribute back, mentor back, provide back. That's the legacy we should all keep growing to remember him.” ||||| Josh Greenberg, co-founder and CTO of legally embattled music-streaming site Grooveshark, was found dead Sunday evening in his Gainesville, Fla., home, according to police. He was 28. 
   
   Greenberg did not have any health problems and police said there was no evidence of foul play or drugs, his mother, Lori Greenberg, told the Gainesville Sun. In a tweet Monday, the Gainesville Police Dept. said there was “no evidence of foul play or suicide” in his death. 
   
   Josh Greenberg formed Grooveshark in 2006 with Sam Tarantino when they were both 19-year-old students at U. of Florida. It shut down operations this April after the company lost a copyright-infringement lawsuit filed by major record labels and reached a settlement with the industry. 
   
   “Despite the best of intentions, we made very serious mistakes,” they said in a statement at the time. “We failed to secure licenses from rights holders for the vast amount of music on the service. That was wrong. We apologize. Without reservation.” 
   
   Grooveshark’s parent company, Escape Media Group, agreed to pay $75 million to labels Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group if Grooveshark violated the terms of the settlement. 
   
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   According to Lori Greenberg, Josh was relieved rather than depressed about the settlement, per the Gainesville Sun. “He was excited about potential new things that he was going to start,” she said. 
   
   Grooveshark’s service let users upload songs and made them available to other users to stream. The startup had deals with some record companies for rights to their music but was sued by the three major labels, which said Grooveshark’s founders had personally uploaded to the site almost 6,000 songs they didn’t have the rights to and urged employees to do so as well. In September 2014, a U.S. federal district court ruled against Grooveshark, which claimed to have more than 40 million users at the peak of its popularity. 
   
   At the time of his death, Greenberg was listed as a co-founder and board member of TapShield, a Florida startup whose system lets users alert emergency responders about crimes or suspicious activity from their mobile phones. He studied business administration at U. of Florida’s Warrington College of Business Administration, according to his LinkedIn profile page.
target: – The co-founder of an online music streaming service has mysteriously died just months after the company was forced to shut down, the Gainesville Sun reports. Josh Greenberg, who helped start Grooveshark in 2006 and inspired fellow startup pioneers, was found dead by his girlfriend last night in Gainesville, Fla. His mother, Lori Greenberg, told police the 28-year-old wasn't sick and says their initial investigation found no evidence of drugs. "It looked like he was sleeping," she says. Police added on Twitter, "No evidence of foul play or suicide." Lori says he wasn't even depressed after record companies sued Grooveshark, forcing it to shutter and settle on April 30. Josh "was excited about potential new things that he was going to start," Lori says. Variety notes that Escape Media Group, Grooveshark's parent company, agreed it would pay $75 million if Grooveshark violated the settlement. But Josh was known for more than Grooveshark, which had 145 workers and up to 40 million monthly users at its peak. He also mentored computer programmers and pioneers in Gainesville, offering guidance through programs like Grooveshark University and Summer with the Sharks internships. Now accolades are pouring in, including words from a colleague who describes Greenberg's death as "terrible news": "With Josh it always felt like sitting in the presence of a much deeper, loving intelligence," blogs Ben Erez at Viabilify. "It felt like witnessing true leadership." An autopsy today found no cause of death, Lori tells the Sun, and toxicology results should arrive within two to three months.