Carl Waldekranz is a tumblelog.

Sean Parkers email to Daniel Ek

Simply Amazing:

Business development teams have a bias for working with the top player in a given market, especially when they don’t understand that market. Unfortunately, partnering with iTunes would not only have created the wrong user experience, it would have had disastrous consequences for the emerging digital music industry.

and

We have to start by understanding the really important parts and building that core functionality first,then building additional features around that core. When you’re building consumer products, getting serious leverage in the marketplace (distribution) is the most important first order goal, so you need to accomplish this as quickly as possible and then shift gears to build second generation features

Read the full letter here and Forbes story here.