Code/Media 2015: Pandora founder Tim Westergren

Despite the 81-plus million active users and 20 billion hours of listened-to music last year, musicians, songwriters and record labels spend a lot of time complaining that Pandora doesn’t pay enough for all of that music — while Pandora thinks it pays too much. Find out what founder Tim Westergren has to say about it all, in conversation with Walt Mossberg.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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