I pay for Pandora b&#x2F;c I get to listen to radio without ads and talk show hosts. I don&#x27;t want to worry about what songs to play. Select a station and go.<p>&quot;Pandora to post $1.2 billion in revenue for the year, an increase of 27 percent from 2014, the company’s slowest annual growth ever.&quot; ... It&#x27;s cases like this where I wish it wasn&#x27;t a public company and instead was run by someone who wanted to keep making the best music streaming app&#x2F;website in town.