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BusinessCo-founder of Grooveshark found dead in apartment (gainesville.com)

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[–]gburdell 124ポイント125ポイント  (19子コメント)

Seeing this headline filled me with dread, and clicking on the contents great sadness. I wasn't a good friend of Josh, we were Facebook buddies at best, but we went to elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as college together. He was that one random invariant in my life, when it seemed like so much else was changing, that made me realize how small the world was.

He was a genuinely nice guy who loved to share what he knew about the world. He chose the path of an entrepreneur when most of his classmates (including myself) went off to work for the Man, and then had the humility to stay and mentor others. I can honestly say I don't have the guts to do what he did, since I went off to two name-brand schools afterward because that's what I thought was required for success. All in all, knowing his background, he was a pretty inspiring guy.

[–]dotMJEG 42ポイント43ポイント  (13子コメント)

Stress and lack of sleep have been known to kill people. A few months ago we had a couple stories of young internship workers and other low-level employees literally being worked to death.

Odd though because it says he wasn't stressed over the whole deal, he was supposedly relieved that the law-suit ended.

If I had to guess I'd say heart failure of some kind.

Shame either way. Grooveshark was a fantastic service that I used for many years, sad to see it go.

[–]gspederson 11ポイント12ポイント  (0子コメント)

I believe the Japanese deal with the 'working yourself to death' phenomena....ya, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kar%C5%8Dshi

[–]DealLayLolMo 2ポイント3ポイント  (8子コメント)

Do they work at Google?

[–]Victawr 3ポイント4ポイント  (7子コメント)

Lol Google interns live it up. $10k/mo, free housing, decent hours. Super chill really.

The worst part of being a Google intern is living south bay lol.

Source: tons of my friends are Google interns.

[–]pmiller2 1ポイント2ポイント  (4子コメント)

What's wrong with the south bay?

[–]Victawr 4ポイント5ポイント  (3子コメント)

Its not San Francisco.

[–]act1v1s1nl0v3r 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

For a lot of us that's a plus.

[–]fookhar 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

What's great about living in San Francisco? (genuinely curious)

[–]happyscrappy 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

That sweet, sweet urine smell.

[–]quigilark 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

$10k/mo? For interns? Bullshit. They are certainly more well off than most but $120k salary for what is basically a low-level position is a stretch.

[–]Victawr 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Lol no sir. These threads about intern pay in SV come up all the time. Thats what they get. I mean, I'm an intern at an extremely extremely small startup and I'm getting 7.5k/mo. 10k is pretty average. Do some googlin!

Here's a little bit here: http://venturebeat.com/2014/11/26/we-may-have-underestimated-the-super-high-salaries-of-silicon-valley-interns-in-1-graph/

[–]TheRealDJ 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

Would heart failure from overwork appear in an autopsy?

[–]dotMJEG 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Likely appear as simple heart failure. I'm sure if they put all our tech towards it they may be able to find something about the neurons in his brain, but I'd imagine that to be quite ridiculous in expense, time, and practicality.

Heart failure + loaded schedule/ day planner + other circumstances like testimony, phone calls, and such, could build an idea to the problem.

[–]turtlebait2 -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

yea, grooveshark was being sued for insane amounts, that had to take a toll on him. I mean that would stress me out to no end.

[–]captaincupcake234 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

Sometimes people just die. When I was an undergrad, my intro to HTML and Javascript professor died the morning before our first midterm.

His wife found him unresponsive in the morning I think. It was sudden heart failure. He seemed like a healthy guy, in his mid thirties, working on tenure.

At the time we didn't know he was dead. We were in the class room waiting for him to come with the midterm exams. He didn't show up for 30 min. We just sat there until someone went to the CS department to notify someone. A few minutes later the office assistant came and told us class was canceled since the professor never showed up, but she looked a little disheartened.

The next day we got an email saying our professor had died of heart failure.

[–]LongFoose 9ポイント10ポイント  (0子コメント)

RIP from a long-time Grooveshark user :(

[–]AGhostFromThePast 10ポイント11ポイント  (0子コメント)

First a Napster exec, now this? RIAA must have some very talented hitmen.

[–]PastelFlamingo150 22ポイント23ポイント  (3子コメント)

It was RIAA assassins

[–]celebratedmrk -5ポイント-4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Why this crass speculation? It serves absolutely no value.

[–]BananaToy 11ポイント12ポイント  (1子コメント)

RIP. 28 years old. Probably put too much pressure on himself after the Grooveshark shut down. Very sad :/

[–]AsthmaticHummingbird 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I was thinking that too, but it says in the article that his mother states he was "more relieved than depressed" about it. Hmm.

[–]BeartrapSandwich 11ポイント12ポイント  (3子コメント)

There's a reason they call the RIAA the MafIAA

"Remember, dose MP3s, dey bad for you health!"

Five internet points to the first person to identify the reference.

[–]UrFriendlyVirus 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

According to DuckDuckGo, it's Accelerando.

[–]BeartrapSandwich -1ポイント0ポイント  (1子コメント)

D'awwh, search engines are cheating =3

[–]UrFriendlyVirus 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I bring shame to family!

[–]BuckyDuster 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

The body must be inspected for a single needle mark and tested for succinylcholine. That is an almost "undetectable" way to kill somebody. There is a new test that can detect it.

http://www.drugs.com/cdi/succinylcholine.html

[–]glonq 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm gonna set up a streaming video site to broadcast his funeral and the funerals of others. And I won't share any of the site's revenue with the families.

I'll call it Graveshark.

[–]GALACTICA-Actual -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

Red Bull, cocaine, and strippers: If you ride the Groove long enough, you're bound to jump the Shark.

I really liked that site. Too bad they couldn't find a way to make it work. It was great being able to listen to whole albums or single songs, or create custom play lists. But hey, I understand that the industry couldn't let it go on, and had to put it's foot down and shut them down.

I guess I'll just have to go over to You Tube and listen to whole albums or single songs, or create custom play lists.

[–]Rontagosh -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

:(

[–]CRISPR -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

At least he survived the dubious membership in that tacky "27" club:

He has died at age 28.

[–]ShelSilverstain -5ポイント-4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Will I finally quit getting emails from them?

[–]madmax21st -2ポイント-1ポイント  (0子コメント)

No one messes with the RIAA, huh?