Product Rap Genius Explains Why Worse is Better Tom Lehman, Co-Founder of Genius, talks about the real value of MVPs and why it's good to build bad sometimes. At 12:30 p.m. on August 19, 2009, Tom Lehman entered the first line of code that would eventually become Rap Genius. By 6:22 p.m. the same day, he finished the first version of the site. It took less than six hours to build something that no