17 Facts About Jordan Ritter

Jordan Ritter was born on February 1,1978 and is an American serial entrepreneur, software architect and angel investor.

Jordan Ritter is best known for his work at Napster, the file-sharing service he co-founded along with Shawn Fanning and others.

Jordan Ritter was born in Northridge, California and grew up in Texas and Florida.

Jordan Ritter attended college at Lehigh University on scholarship, starting as a sophomore and pursuing a double major in music and computer science.

Jordan Ritter dropped out in 1998, relocating to Boston, Massachusetts to begin his career in computer security.

Jordan Ritter started out in the computer security industry, working as a paid hacker for the Boston office of Israeli computer security company Netect.

Jordan Ritter moved to Silicon Valley in September 1999, initially sharing an apartment with Fanning and Sean Parker at the San Mateo Marriott Residence Inn.

Jordan Ritter was directly responsible for many of the key evolutions of the backend service architecture during Napster's period of hyper-growth, including its novel load-balancing system, MySQL and subsequent Oracle database integration, and transparent full-mesh server linking.

Jordan Ritter oversaw the Moderator Community, a group of individuals who volunteered their free time to help moderate the various socially-focused portions of the Napster service.

Later that summer, Jordan Ritter discovered an open-source collaborative filtering program for email called Vipul's Razor, authored by Vipul Ved Prakash.

Jordan Ritter was introduced to Columbia Music Entertainment CEO Sadahiko Hirose in early 2006 during a business trip to Tokyo.

Jordan Ritter joined CME in February 2006 as Executive Advisor to the CEO.

In 2007, Jordan Ritter hired Ejovi Nuwere into CME, and together they began building a Japanese-based, competition-oriented promotional platform for new artists called Otorevo.

Shortly afterwards, Jordan Ritter joined as CTO in order to overhaul the engineering organization while a CEO search was being conducted.

In December 2008, a new CEO was appointed and Jordan Ritter left the company.

Jordan Ritter founded crowdsourcing company CloudCrowd with Alex Edelstein in April 2009.

Jordan Ritter is a lifelong contributor to open-source software and the free software movement.