Jordan Mendelson was the Chief Architect of the original Napster

Napster

Napster is an online music store and a Best Buy company. It was originally founded as a pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing Internet service that emphasized sharing audio files that were typically digitally encoded music as MP3 format files...

 from 1999 to 2002. After Napster, Mendelson and Shawn Fanning

Shawn Fanning

Shawn Fanning is an American computer programmer, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor. He developed Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer file sharing platforms, in 1998. The popularity of Napster was widespread and Fanning was featured on the cover of Time magazine...

 founded Snocap

SNOCAP

BackgroundThe company was founded by Shawn Fanning , Jordan Mendelson, and Ron Conway. Other SNOCAP employees included music lawyer Christian Castle, the company's first General Counsel, and Ali Aydar, the company's Chief Operating Officer, who joined imeem after its acquisition of SNOCAP in April...

in 2002. Jordan Mendelson served as Founder and Chief Architect of Snocap for five years, leaving in 2007 to develop a new start-up. In 2009, Mendelson joined LinkedIn where he produced Who Viewed My Profile and Career Explorer that led to LinkedIn being named the top 24 most innovative companies of 2011 by Fast Company . In 2011, Mendelson left LinkedIn to develop a new start-up SeatMe.