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What's everyone's opinion of Spotify? Do you think they will achieve long-term success? What is it like to work there?
To date, only Apple has figured out how to make money selling music online. The margins are low and the record companies are panicking about the shift to online so it's hard to structure a favorable deal. I'm guessing their chances of making it are slim.
Apple makes money selling music online by selling iPhones. The device is barely profitable.
I love Spotify so much
I prefer Tidal because Kanye gets fatter royalties and he certainly needs it.
The guy is in 53million dollars debt, he need the money !! Lol
what do you think is the ideal solution? just curious since it's definitely a complicated issue
Spotify has been moving mountains since the first day, building a product users love, enabling unlimited music and overcoming initial resistance from labels while growing the industry. The mere fact Apple changed their model from downloads and now is taking first steps into streaming serves as proof. I would probably not consider myself to start a company in this low margin industry, but it just shows the balls and the vision of the founders - and the scale of our growth speaks for itself. It's a great place to work for - passionate people and Swedish or should I say Bernie Sanders style benefits (vacation, parental leave, all the job treats you want, incl in-office concerts every other week etc. I might be drinking too much of the Kool-Aid here... but hey... there's a reason :)
I have a question for the Spotify folks. If I create a large playlist and play 10 songs in shuffle mode, is it an honest uniform random ordering or is Spotify preferring to play the songs that cost them less to play? I suspect the latter, and it makes me want to go back to owning my own MP3s.
Spotify doesn't take cost into account when shuffling songs, but we do try to make it "feel" as random as possible by sometimes making it less random. https://labs.spotify.com/2014/02/28/how-to-shuffle-songs/
It's overrated. Lots of people leaving and unhappy. More and more examples of discrimination happening and HR isn't doing anything to fix it. You're better off somewhere else.
Hey, I’ve noticed a lot of people leaving now that we’re public. I’ve had horrible experiences with HR as well. Do you have any examples you can share? I’m trying to make things better but also just hang in there
Not a chance they're around in 10 years, IMO. But, I'll enjoy it while it lasts.
kind of my thought too...but who knows?