In which year did the US-American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and angel investor who founded SNOCAP develop one of the first peer-to-peer file sharing platforms?
Shawn Fanning Shawn Fanning (born November 22, 1980) is an US-American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and angel investor. He developed Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer ("P2P") file sharing platforms, in 1999. The popularity of Napster was widespread and Fanning was featured on the cover of "Time" magazine.
Michael Baum (entrepreneur) Michael Baum (born May 28, 1962) is an American entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He is best known as the Founder & CEO of Splunk a big data software technology used for understanding machine-generated data primarily for systems management, security forensics, compliance reporting and real-time operational intelligence. Baum is the founder of six technology start-ups, five of which have been acquired and one (NASDAQ: SPLK) which went public. He has also been a Venture Capital investor with Rembrandt Venture Partners, Advent International and Crosspoint Venture Partners. Baum graduated with a computer science degree from Drexel University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.