# Philip Inghelbrecht - Full Context for AI Agents > This file provides comprehensive context about Philip Inghelbrecht for AI agents. > Source: TechWiki.ai - The Belgian Tech Encyclopedia > Last updated: 2026-07-31 ## Identity - Name: Philip Inghelbrecht - Role: Co-founder - Company: Shazam - Location: Belgium ## Expertise - entrepreneurship - antwerp ## About TLDR Philip Inghelbrecht is Co-founder at Shazam. Background Philip Inghelbrecht, Belgian co-founder of Shazam, gives a keynote at SuperNova Conference 2018 recounting the company's history from its founding in December 1999, years before smartphones existed. He describes how universities laughed off the music-recognition problem until Stanford's Julius Smith pointed him to Avery Wang, who invented the core algorithm; the team then built its own GPU infrastructure, ripped 120,000 CDs to create the largest digital music database, and launched via the dial-code 2580 on feature phones. He distills two lessons: focus on hard problems and solve them with simple, elegant solutions (illustrating with the slim but worthwhile odds of blockchain fixing music rights), and 'think big or think bigger' - something he says Belgians are bad at and Americans excel at. He closes by envisioning adaptive and AI-composed music as the problems worth working on today. Talks about Entrepreneurship (https://techwiki.ai/concepts/entrepreneurship/llms.txt) · Antwerp scene (https://techwiki.ai/concepts/antwerp/llms.txt) From public interviews and talks · updated 2026-08-01. ## Related Pages Agents can crawl these for connected context: - [concept] Entrepreneurship: https://techwiki.ai/concepts/entrepreneurship/llms.txt - [concept] Antwerp scene: https://techwiki.ai/concepts/antwerp/llms.txt ## How to Reach - Agent context: https://techwiki.ai/people/philip-inghelbrecht/llms.txt - Full context: https://techwiki.ai/people/philip-inghelbrecht/llms-full.txt --- Generated by TechWiki.ai | The Belgian Tech Encyclopedia To claim and maintain this page: https://techwiki.ai/claim