Robert Lord

“Rob's a pie-in-sky visionary who's not only ahead of the curve, but caused the ball to spin sideways in the first place. In other words, it's people like Rob who will determine the future face of technology, media and the web and provide the gumption to see it built. And were it not for Rob's limitless enthusiasm and vigor, you might really wonder if such ambitious goals were feasible. Having worked alongside him, it never really was a question of *if* — only a matter of *when*: when everyone else would be made to catch up to him.”

“In the first five minutes of meeting and talking shop with Rob, I had a cathartic vision that positively impacted my business. 'nuff said.”

“Rob had the crazy idea of putting unsigned artists on "The Internet" "digitally" via Usenet in 1992. Rob tried to get N2K to buy Winamp for almost nothing in 1998. Need I say more? Rob sees the future. Follow him.”

“Rob is an experienced entrepreneur who works continues to come up with great business/technology ideas that looks at services from a user and community perspective.”

“Rob runs quite an amazing show in the songbird nest, with an impressive team and a dog, and throws awesome parties for overseas visitors (like me) once in a while. Songbird and Last.fm share a tagline "the last ...", a common cause from 2 different angles. I would have no problem at all if Songbird kicked some serious btt, oh and black looks sleak, too.”

“Rob had all the ideas for Star Wars, and everything. He is the brightest, most visionary person I've ever had the pleasure of working with. So we fired him.”

“Rob *really* gets the tech industry. After talking with him and the Songbird team I was really blown away. It's super cool to see people implementing awesome tech on the Firefox platform. I'm going to be watching Rob and Songbird and expect killer things to happen in this area.”

“Rob Lord is a legend. He co-founded IUMA, a website for musicians to share their music and communicate with their audience on the web -- in 1993! At NullSoft, Rob was involved in creating the ground-breaking Winamp, one of the first MP3 music players; the Gnutella p2p network; the ShoutCast independent streaming radio plugin; and more. Rob Lord creates the future of digital music.”

“Rob is a fantastic and extremely insightful person. Conversations with him are great fun since we get to skip the first half an hour of explication and just jump right to the point. Rob clearly sees the tech industry from the programmer's view all the way up to the Chairman's, and that range is extremely rare. He plays all the instruments.”