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With her app Smash, Kesha can be whoever she wants — even a tech CEO


Kesha's app, Smash, is a community platform for music creators to collaborate.

As beleaguered high schoolers studied for exams amid Kesha’s rise to fame, they whispered in frustration about how the world’s most famous party girl got a near-perfect score on the SAT, but turned down a full-ride to Barnard College to sing about peeing in champagne bottles. Years ago, Kesha attended an ACTAI Ventures event and met Lars Rasmussen, who co-founded Google Maps and was one of the first investors in design unicorn Canva. Cannistraro spent over 12 years at Apple, where he worked on products for creatives like Final Cut; he also managed a team of engineers to build the first ever apps for iOS, like Remote, iBooks, iTunes, and Podcasts.

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