Dalton Caldwell (born February 27, 1980) is an American technologist and digital music entrepreneur. He is the founder and chief executive officer of imeem. He currently works as a partner at Y Combinator.
After graduation, Caldwell worked briefly for VA Linux (where he had previously worked as a summer intern) before founding Imeem in late 2003 with Stanford classmate (and ex-Napster engineer) Jan Jannink.[2] Imeem was eventually bought by MySpace.[3]
Caldwell founded Mixed Media Labs in 2010. Its first product was picplz, a photo broadcasting application for phones.[4]
In October 2010, Caldwell spoke at Y Combinator’s Startup School event at Stanford University about the failures of Imeem and of the challenges still facing the music industry. [5][6]
Caldwell started App.net, through Mixed Media Labs, as a social network similar to Twitter, but with no advertising, instead relying on user and developer subscriptions.[7][8][9]
On May 6, 2014, Caldwell announced the service has not seen sufficient subscriptions to support any full-time employees and that it would remain online but without plans for enhancements or improvements.[10]
References
^Downs, David (January–February 2009). "The Mixtape Master". Stanford Magazine. Archived from the original on January 31, 2009. Retrieved July 26, 2010.
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