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Pandora TV

Pandora TV

South Korean company Pandora TVTypePrivateTraded asKRX: 202960IndustryInternet video sharingFoundedOctober 2004DefunctJanuary 31, 2023Headquarters Bundang District, Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, South KoreaKey peoplePeter Kim, Founder and CEOSamuel Lee, COONumber of employees120 (2008)Websitewww.pandora.tv Pandora TV (Korean: 판도라TV) was a South Korean video sharing website that hosted user-generated content. Founded in October 2004, Pandora TV is the first video sharing website in the world to attach advertisement to user-submitted video clips and to provide unlimited storage space for users to upload. The operating company, Pandora TV Co., Ltd., has its headquarters in the Seoul-Gangnam Building in Yeoksam-dong, Gangnam District, Seoul. In 2007, it was the fastest growing website in South Korea. In 2008, it was the largest video sharing website in South Korea, and it had 3.6 million members. At the time, it had 35% of the Korean marketshare for video sharing sites. The site was available in Korean, and after April 2008, in English, Chinese, and Japanese. Pandora TV raised over $16 million from Silicon Valley venture capital firms – Altos Ventures and DCM - in two consecutiv