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Speaker Bio: Ali Partovi
 Ali Partovi, CEO of GarageBand.com and GCast.com
Ali Partovi is CEO of GarageBand.com and Gcast.com, the world's largest independent music community and leading podcasting creation service. GarageBand.com has over 150,000 bands and 2 million monthly visitors, and uses collaborative-filtering to let ordinary people pick the hits in every genre, resulting in radio airplay, publishing deals, and recording contracts for deserving artists. Many top-rated bands at GarageBand.com have gone on to become major label acts. Gcast.com offers free tools for any consumer to easily create and share their own podcast, and currently hosts over 40,000 podcasts.
Ali has a long track record with grass-roots ventures. He was a co-founder of LinkExchange, a startup that helped small businesses build web traffic and revenue, rapidly became the web's largest small business portal, and was acquired for $265m by Microsoft in 1998. Ali has provided strategic consulting to Google, Overture, PayPal, and Yahoo. Ali also co-founded "DrinkExchange," a grass-roots social and networking community with regular events in San Francisco, San Diego, Washington DC, Tokyo, Sydney, and London. Ali has Bachelors and Masters degrees from Harvard.
Go to sessions for Day 1: Friday, September 29, 2006
Go to sessions for Day 2: Saturday, September 30, 2006
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