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How hip-hop media’s Rap Genius destroyed their company
“Exploring the rise of Genius (formerly Rap Genius), how it became one of the most promising startups of the 2010s, one of the largest hip hop media companies in history, and how the decisions from the Rap Genius Founders lead to it becoming worthless. Genius is an American digital media company founded on August 27, 2009, by Tom Lehman, Ilan Zechory, and Mahbod Moghadam. Its site of the same name allows users to provide annotations and interpretation to song lyrics, news stories, sources, poetry, and documents.” – TyFrom99
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