[citation needed] After high school, he attended Carnegie Mellon University, where he majored in mathematics and computer science.
In All the Rave, Joseph Menn notes that Shawn interned for chess.net in the summer of 1997, sleeping on a couch in the living room.
[1] In late 1998, Shawn Fanning contacted Aydar via instant messenger to tell him about a software application he was writing that would enable people to share music.
Following Napster's shutdown and subsequent bankruptcy, Aydar served as an advisor to the management team of software company Roxio during its 2003 acquisition of music service Pressplay.
[10] While at SNOCAP, he also completed an MBA from the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, on a part-time basis.
Aydar joined imeem as part of its acquisition of SNOCAP in April 2008,[11] and served as the company's chief operating officer.