Jason Olim @ CDNow: The Miles Davis Fan Who Revolutionized Commerce

<p>Despite Amazon’s immense success, it wasn’t the company that pioneered e-commerce. That honor belongs to an entrepreneur named Jason Olim and his online music store, CDNow.com. CDNow was one of the first -- if not <em>the first </em>-- large, consumer-focused e-commerce companies, eventually reaching a public valuation of over a billion dollars.</p><p><br></p><p>To give you an idea of just how early CDNow was in the e-commerce space, Jason and his team invented the online shopping cart. It literally didn’t exist before they created the first one.</p><p><br></p><p>Of course, today, you’ve probably never even heard of CDNow, while you’ve probably ordered a half dozen things from Amazon in the past week. So what happened? Why did the pioneer of e-commerce shutdown, while a company that came later managed to become one of the largest and most successful companies in history? Find out in this episode of Web Masters.</p><p>For a complete transcript of the episode, <a href="https://latonas.com/blog/web-masters-episode-49-jason-olim/">click here</a>.</p><p><br></p>