Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised by how much laying off 1,500 employees negatively affected the streaming giant’s operations

Fortune headline

https://fortune.com/europe/2024/04/23/spotify-earnings-q1-ceo-daniel-eklaying-off-1500-spotify-employees-negatively-affected-streaming-giants-operations/

But he says they’re back on track now on a path to long term profitability.

Ugh

what a piece of shit that guy is. it's amazing to me he's even willing to show his face in public!

more amazing that anyone still admits to and / or rationalizes subscribing to this service

It's a go-kart powered by my own sense of self satisfaction.

Anyone explored the 'Daylist' feature? It analyses what you tend to listen to at any given time of the day and serves up a playlist accordingly. This changes 3 or 4 times during the day. It does give the playlist a dumb name. Eg, my current one is called 'healing abstract tuesday (sic) morning'.

The key difference so far is that mine have actually been pretty good?

happy saxophone trumpet tuesday morning from here......

I pulled up Daylist and it offered a bunch of Drake songs wtf

in the days of pandora I remember flipping around trying to find some new age music I liked until the “algorithm” just gave up and started playing Jaheim, which totally hit the he spot somehow

he spot? the spot

Seems relevant to post here:
Spotify's Former Data Guru Tells All: A Conversation with Glenn McDonald

nice! look forward to the book

Long-time readers of this thread, where I've been before, during and after my long time at Spotify, will probably recognize many of the themes and sentiments in the book, but hopefully I did a better job of organizing them into a coherent whole than came across in individual comments here...

i'm very excited to purchase the book