Michael Downing

San Francisco Bay Area, ca United States

Founder & CEO at Tout

Technology / Software / Internet

Pioneering Silicon Valley serial-entrepreneur in the Digital Media space, Co-Founded more than 6 leading-edge technology companies over the last 20 years, 3 acquired and one IPO. The companies I've co-founded and built include one of the very first Internet-Music technologies in 1997 that helped kick-off the online music revolution, the first industry licensed online-music subscription service in 1999, one of the first consumer UGC online video platforms in 2003, and a new video platform technology that has the ability to grow the $6B online video market into a $20B market in less than 3 years. Along the way co-founded one of the early seed-stage venture funds in San Francisco, and one ...