jason hirschhorn tbi Jason Hirschhorn is on the beach –
literally.  As planes fly overhead, he’s decompressing from an
intense 16 months at MySpace. Taking a break from big media
culture as the MySpace he helped to reshape prepares for a fall
launch.  Hirschhorn has always been a bit of a media-giant
outsider, more of a startup entrepreneur whose creations and
vision have drawn him in – time after time.  So jumping from one
of the largest media jobs in the business without a clear
landing space doesn’t seem to phase Hirschhorn. If it does, he
doesn’t let on.  His story starts, as with most modern day
computer nerds, in high school. Hirschhorn had an Atari and was
hacking away in BASIC. At the age of 15 he was a club promoter,
and so the mix of music and technology was early on one the
things that connected for him.  While getting his BS at NYU – he
was an intern for Warner Brothers Records – and as the web began
to take off, he took interest in the "Ultimate Band List,"
ubl.com, which eventually became "Artis