Mark Chasan is an American entrepreneur and lawyer known for founding eMusic, the first digital media streaming and distribution service, and Webcentral, one of the first cloud hosting companies.
10 Facts About Mark Chasan
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Mark Chasan has pioneered new financial models and process for liquidity and value creation utilizing a private-to-public strategy.
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Mark Chasan was born in Los Angeles, California as the first of three sons to Roslyn and Fred Chasan He started playing music at age 10, studying drums, percussion, and piano and later became professionally known as Guruvie for his music and compositions.
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Mark Chasan graduated with both Bachelor of Laws and Juris Doctor degrees in 1985 from Western State University's College of Law and became a lawyer, opening his practice in Los Angeles.
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In 1995, Chasan founded eMusic in Marina del Ray, California, which aimed to create a new market sector for digital media sales.
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Mark Chasan pioneered new technology allowing for digital audio clips, album art, and user reviews to be posted to the website.
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Additional server bandwidth was needed beyond what was commercially available at the time, leading Mark Chasan to found Webcentral, one of the first cloud co-hosting, and co-location data center companies.
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In 1998, Mark Chasan partnered with Nordic Entertainment to increase the catalogue available to eMusic customers.
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Mark Chasan then co-founded Publex Ventures, a technology venture capital firm which specialized in accelerating the growth of early-stage companies with IPOs and PIPEs.
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In 2022, Mark Chasan published Living in AWE, which was featured on Amazon's new top selling books lists in environmental economics on Amazon.