Wired Magazine / Hotwired Hyman started his online career in
online advertising sales at
Wired Digital in San Francisco, California, where he was an active participant in the web's establishment of online advertising. While at Wired Digital he sold one of the first advertisements online and also created the first platform for pioneering e-commerce entities to advertise.
Sonicnet From 1996 to 1999 Hyman worked as the senior vice president of sales and marketing at Sonicnet. From 1999 to mid-2000 he worked at
MTV Interactive as the senior vice president of marketing, where he oversaw all marketing functions for MTV.com, VH1.com, Nickelodeon.com, and Sonicnet. Hyman was the voice-over announcer on the only television ads done in MTVi's and Sonicnet's history.
Gracenote In 2000 Hyman created
Gracenote and was its original president and CEO. There, he took fledgling compact disc identification technology (
CDDB) and converted it into the world's largest music identification and music management company. Hyman's efforts helped to drive Gracenote to become core plumbing for all MP3 players & encoders in hardware and software. Gracenote was sold to
Sony for $260 million in 2008.
MOG In 2005 Hyman founded MOG in
Berkeley, California.
Beats Music In 2012, Hyman was CEO of
Beats Music, the music subscription service created as an offshoot of
Beats By Dre. Beats Music was subsequently sold to
Apple along with Beats By Dre for $3 billion.
Blin.gy In 2016 Hyman developed Blin.gy, the first augmented-reality mobile application enabling video segmentation, allowing anyone to superimpose their video or image into any video simply using their built-in mobile phone camera. There, he oversaw the development of a proprietary lightweight neural network to run on a mobile GPU with an inference engine trained to identify and separate humans from their background environments. Blin.gy closed its operations in September 2017. Hyman wrote a eulogy to the company.
Unagi Scooters In November 2018, Hyman launched Unagi Scooters on Kickstarter, generating $240,000 in revenue. Unagi has been praised as a quality portable electric scooter by numerous publications including
The Verge,
Gizmodo, and
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