Episode 015: The Story of Murfie w. Preston Austin & John Fenley

About this episode

The episode discusses the founding and revival of the music streaming service Murfie with its co-founders.

Founded in 2010, Murfie was a unique streaming service that provided both physical and cloud-based storage for a user's physical music collection. The company lasted for nine years before suddenly announcing its closure, only to be resurrected just weeks later by new owner John Fenley. Murfie co-founder Preston Austin joins me first, to talk about the founding of the company and the original concepts behind it, as well as his current role as CEO of Rabble and its associated (and very cool!) Musicat service. I then chat with John Fenley to find out what led to him buying what appeared to be a failed company, and his plans to restore all of its services to an increasingly anxious user base. Links from the episode: Murfie MUSICat Capital City Records John Fenley YouTube Channel

People in this episode

Host: Phil Scott

Guests: Preston Austin, John Fenley

Topics covered

• music streaming
• company history
• entrepreneurship
• music collection
• business acquisition

Keywords

• Murfie
• streaming service
• music collection
• Preston Austin
• John Fenley

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Murfie, Rabble, MUSICat, Capital City Records

Books & works: Collecting Tales Podcast

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