Genius is an American digital media company founded on August 27, 2009, by Tom Lehman, Ilan Zechory, and Mahbod Moghadam. Its website serves as an online music encyclopedia allowing users to provide annotations and interpretation to song lyrics, news stories, sources, poetry, and documents. Originally launched as Rap Genius, with a focus on hip-hop music, the company attracted the attention and support of celebrities, and venture capital enabling further growth. The site expanded in 2014 to cover other forms of media, such as pop, literature, R&B, and added an annotation-embedded platform. That same year, an iPhone app was released. To reflect these new goals, the site relaunched as Genius in July 2014. An Android version was released in August 2015, and in 2016 and 2017, the company began producing music-focused original video content and hosting live events and concerts. History Founding and early years (2009–2012)

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Notable quotes

“Genius is but the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.”
— Amos Bronson Alcott, The Doctrine and Discipline of Human Culture (Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1836), p. 13
“"Genius" (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).”
— Thomas Carlyle, Life of Fredrick the Great, Book IV, Chapter 3 (1858–1865); in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), this is declared comparable to:
“Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire.”
— John Foster, as quoted in Tact, Push, and Principle (1882) by William Makepeace Thayer, p. 48
“Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.”
— Stanisław Lem, in His Master's Voice (1968) as translated by Michael Kandel (1983)
“Ilud ingeniorum velut præcox genus, non temere unquam pervenit ad frugem.”
— It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
“Learning we thank, Genius we revere: That gives us pleasure, This gives us rapture; That informs, This inspires; and is itself inspired; for genius is from heaven, learning from man.”
— Edward Young, Conjectures on Original Composition (1759)

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Notable quotes

“Genius is but the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.”
— Amos Bronson Alcott, The Doctrine and Discipline of Human Culture (Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1836), p. 13
“"Genius" (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).”
— Thomas Carlyle, Life of Fredrick the Great, Book IV, Chapter 3 (1858–1865); in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), this is declared comparable to:
“Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire.”
— John Foster, as quoted in Tact, Push, and Principle (1882) by William Makepeace Thayer, p. 48
“Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.”
— Stanisław Lem, in His Master's Voice (1968) as translated by Michael Kandel (1983)
“Ilud ingeniorum velut præcox genus, non temere unquam pervenit ad frugem.”
— It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
“Learning we thank, Genius we revere: That gives us pleasure, This gives us rapture; That informs, This inspires; and is itself inspired; for genius is from heaven, learning from man.”
— Edward Young, Conjectures on Original Composition (1759)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

Genius is an American digital media company founded on August 27, 2009, by Tom Lehman, Ilan Zechory, and Mahbod Moghadam. Its website serves as an online music encyclopedia allowing users to provide annotations and interpretation to song lyrics, news stories, sources, poetry, and documents. Originally launched as Rap Genius, with a focus on hip-hop music, the company attracted the attention and support of celebrities, and venture capital enabling further growth. The site expanded in 2014 to cover other forms of media, such as pop, literature, R&B, and added an annotation-embedded platform. That same year, an iPhone app was released. To reflect these new goals, the site relaunched as Genius in July 2014. An Android version was released in August 2015, and in 2016 and 2017, the company began producing music-focused original video content and hosting live events and concerts. History Founding and early years (2009–2012)

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Genius is an American digital media company founded on August 27, 2009, by Tom Lehman, Ilan Zechory, and Mahbod Moghadam. Its website serves as an online music encyclopedia allowing users to provide annotations and interpretation to song lyrics, news stories, sources, poetry, and documents.

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