Editing Shawn Fanning (section)

===Airtime===
In 2011 Fanning reunited with Napster cofounder [[Sean Parker]] to found [[Airtime.com]]. Some of the investors were [[Ron Conway]], [[Michael Arrington]], and [[Ashton Kutcher]].<ref>Bertoni, Steven (October 6, 2011). [https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2011/10/06/sean-parker-and-shawn-fannings-secretive-airtime-gets-big-backers/ Sean Parker And Shawn Fanning's Secretive Airtime Gets Big Backers]. ''[[Forbes]]''.</ref><ref>Apostolou, Natalie. [https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/10/napster_nippers_return "Napster boys are back with Airtime"]. ''The A Register''. October 10, 2011.</ref> Fanning is CEO and Parker as executive chairman.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15239109 Napster founders return with Airtime start-up]. [[BBC News]]. October 10, 2011.</ref>

Airtime launched in June 2012 at a disastrous public event where Parker and Fanning paid huge amounts of money to have celebrities present but the product repeatedly crashed and ultimately failed to work.<ref>Sutter, John D. (June 6, 2012). [http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/05/tech/innovation/airtime-failure/index.html "Is Airtime (a clothed version of Chatroulette) destined to fail?"]. CNN.</ref> Greg Sandoval of [[CNET]] commented, "To launch his new start-up, Sean Parker should have spent less of his billions on celebrity guests and more of it on fixing his technology."<ref>Sandoval, Greg (June 6, 2012). [http://www.cnet.com/news/sean-parkers-airtime-not-ready-for-prime-time/ "Sean Parker's Airtime not ready for prime time"]. [[CNET]].</ref>