Creator of Shazam, the app that can identify any song, anywhere
Inventor, entrepreneur, tech investor, and keynote speaker.
He came up with the idea for Shazam in 1999 while studying at UC Berkeley. Today, the app has been downloaded more than 2 billion times and has over 300 million monthly users. Barton was a founding member of Google’s Android Partnerships team and one of Dropbox’s first 100 employees. He holds 12 patents, including one used in Google’s search algorithm, and now leads Guard, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to detect drowning in swimming pools.
A world-renowned keynote speaker,he shares the lessons he has learned from overcoming the impossible. He inspires audiences with firsthand stories that offer key takeaways on tech innovation, persistence, removing friction, and entrepreneurship.
He came up with the idea for Shazam in 1999 while studying at UC Berkeley. Today, the app has been downloaded more than 2 billion times and has over 300 million monthly users. Barton was a founding member of Google’s Android Partnerships team and one of Dropbox’s first 100 employees. He holds 12 patents, including one used in Google’s search algorithm, and now leads Guard, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to detect drowning in swimming pools.
A world-renowned keynote speaker,he shares the lessons he has learned from overcoming the impossible. He inspires audiences with firsthand stories that offer key takeaways on tech innovation, persistence, removing friction, and entrepreneurship.