Fostering Innovation and Choosing the Right Founding Team

Interview with Avery Wang, Principal Research Scientist at Apple and Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Shazam

Avery Wang (second from left) with co-founders Philip Inghelbrecht, Chris Barton and Dhiraj Mukherjee

The story of Shazam is a remarkable one.

In 1999, Chris Barton dreamed of a seemingly impossible solution to ambient music recognition and gathered together a team…