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Sam Tarantino (December 19, 1986) is an American entrepreneur and one of the co-founders of music streaming service Grooveshark.

Career
Tarantino, founded Grooveshark as a 19-year-old freshman at the University of Florida in March 2006 with co-founders Andrés Barreto and Josh Greenberg. The latter, Tarantino's best friend, became the company's Chief Technology officer (CTO). Tarantino operated as Chief Executive officer (CEO) of Grooveshark from the inception of the on-demand music service in 2006 until the company's close in May 2015. Tarantino's duties as CEO were related to Marketing, Sales, Finance, Business Development, Music Industry Development, Operations, and Customer Support.

Grooveshark, with 40 million users and 145 employees at its peak, began to face a string of lawsuits from the three major conglomerates - Universal, Sony and Warner Music. The website shut down to avoid hundreds of millions of dollars in potential penalties, after reaching a settlement with the labels to avoid a jury trial.

In 2021 Tarantino co-founded a Web3 development company Auguron.