SAN FRANCISCO--Tim Westergren could be thought of as a modern-day Santa Claus with a bag full of compact discs you've probably never heard of. The founder of Pandora, a 7-month-old, so-called ...

Tim Westergren, founder and chief strategy officer of Pandora, is looking to change royalty rates, the musician class system and how companies interact with their customers. In a software-driven world ...

Tim Westergren's brain-child, "The Music Genome Project," sounds vaguely "Monty Python"-ish—a system by which trained musician-analysts break down songs into hundreds of categories to find which tunes ...