Aether (company)

Aether Things
Private
Industry Audio technology
Founded 2012
Founders Janus Friis and Duncan Lamb
Headquarters San Francisco, California, United States
Number of employees
 ~50
Website www.aether.com

Aether is a San Francisco-based company building products that integrate hardware, software like contextual learning technology and services.[1] Aether launched on March 4, 2014, coming out of stealth mode after two years.[2] Aether's first product, Cone, is a wireless speaker that learns from how it is used to build a listening experience tailored to users’ habits, including when and where they listen.[3]

Founders

Aether was co-founded by Janus Friis and Duncan Lamb, who previously worked together at Skype, a company also founded by Friis.[4] Friis is also known for founding companies including Rdio, Joost and KaZaA among others.[5] Prior to co-founding Aether, Duncan Lamb was the former creative director at Nokia and led product design at Skype.[6]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Cone Wi-Fi radio gets to know you, plays what you like". USAToday. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
  2. ↑ "Aether Cone Review: A Little Speaker With Some Big Ambitions". Gizmodo. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  3. ↑ "A Deceptively Simple Speaker That Always Knows What to Play". Wired. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
  4. ↑ "Janus Friis' Next Act Is A Hardware Startup Called Aether, And A "Thinking" Music Player Called Cone". TechCrunch. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
  5. ↑ "Skype Co-founder Janus Friis Takes a Shot in Smart Hardware". ArcticStartup. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
  6. ↑ "Aether's $399 Cone is a speaker that knows exactly what you want to hear next". The Verge. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
  7. ↑ "100 Brilliant Companies". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 8 June 2015.

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