About this episode

The episode explores the origin story of Spotify and the challenges faced by big corporations.

Here we go, another big corporation origin story! Born from the idea of legally listening to music on the internet, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon created Spotify. The word is actually a portmanteau of “Spot” and “Identify”. It was a struggle but those guys built something pretty important for the world, but with every Big Corporation problems would soon come. The BIG part tends to come from the corporation stepping on the people they claim to be serving. #BringOnTheQuestions #Podcast #Spotify #OriginStory #BigCorporation

Topics covered

• corporate origin stories
• music streaming
• Spotify history
• business challenges
• internet music

Keywords

• Spotify
• origin story
• Daniel Ek
• Martin Lorentzon
• music streaming
• big corporations
• internet music

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Spotify

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