Career
He and Frankel co-founded Nullsoft, whose most popular program is Winamp, which was sold to America Online in May 1999. Afterwards, Pepper worked inside of America Online as the manager of SHOUTcast, an Internet streaming audio service, and wrote the software along with Stephen "Tag" Loomis and Frankel, before leaving in October, 2004. Pepper then worked on development at RAZZ, Incorporated.
He continues to collaborate with Frankel on independent projects like Ninjam.
Pepper was the Chief Technology Officer of local food logistics startup FarmsReach prior to taking a position as the VP of Operations for Beats Music until its acquisition by Apple Incorporated. in May 2014. Tom Pepper is currently a Senior Manager of Operations within Apple.