Daniel Ek says Spotify’s new CFO, a former defense exec, is ditching his suits for t-shirts as streaming giant breaks fresh records
The streaming giant closed out its first full year of profitability in 2024 while growing listeners to a new record. Just over a year after laying off 1,500 of its workers and parting ways with its ...
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I was laid off from Spotify after moving to Sweden for the job. I had to leave the entire life I built behind and am still looking for work.
As a music psychology graduate, joining Spotify was a dream come true ... At the end of 2023, I was among the 17% affected by layoffs at the company I'd dreamed of joining. Since then, I've ...
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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has realized laying off 1,500 people at one go may have created a 'significant challenge' for Spotify's day-to-day operations
The layoffs, Ek said in December ... of makes the company more effective," Zuckerberg said. Representatives for Spotify didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from BI sent outside ...
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My Swedish Career: 'Losing my dream job at Spotify was a huge shock'
Sophia Omarji, a user researcher from the UK, relocated to Sweden after landing a job at Spotify straight after graduation.
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Spotify stock jumps after reporting its first full year of profitability, strong user metrics
Spotify Technology (SPOT ... which has included everything from mass layoffs and C-suite shakeups to a major strategic shift away from podcasts, an area it had aggressively pursued.
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Spotify stock price jumps as the music streamer achieves its first full year of profitability
Those efforts have included reducing costs through layoffs and shifts away from its beleaguered podcasts strategy. Spotify is the largest music streamer in the world in terms of monthly active users.
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Spotify says that streaming has made the world ‘value music’
Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Spotify wants to see 1 billion people paying for streaming music, double the more than 500 million customers who currently ...
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Daniel Ek says Spotify’s new CFO, a former defense exec, is ditching his suits for t-shirts as streaming giant breaks fresh records
His entrance followed the most painful cost-cutting exercise Spotify has ever had to carry out, saying goodbye to 17% of its workforce as part of its biggest-ever round of layoffs in December 2023.