Pandora was first founded in 2000 by three men, Will Glaser, Jon Kraft, and Tim Westergren. The company was funded $2,000,000 to create Pandora. Within a year they went through all of it and had no other funds for the project. Eventually one of the founders convinced the 50 employees to work for two years without any pay. They did not give up heart and worked until the release. At first, when Pandora was launched in 2004, it was for paid users only. But eventually they went to advertisements so that they could have free users as well. Today they are not the biggest user base for listening to music, sadly Spotify has taken that role. Even though Pandora is not on top they started the free radio to listen to only what you want to without having to spend any money.