Spotify's playlist doesn't include its CTO, who tweets his departure

it’s all tweculation

I’m sure he knows whether or not it’s going to crumble on the weight of new users or not. Whatever he ends up doing, I’m sure that Andreas will find himself somewhere else.

It’s a financial scaleability issue rather than a technology issue. so i’m not sure the twitter comparison is valid.
They have to pay royalties everytime someone listens to a track. The revenue generated by advertising isn’t covering the royalties and the number of premium users isn’t as high as they’d like.

He is definitely one of the most skilled CTO´s in the world. I surprise move on hist part to say the least. I wonder where he is going…And I´m also very curious about who will be the new CTO..

Gareth Evans:
“the umber of premium users isn’t as high as they’d like”

They are of course trying to gain more premium users.. but at this moment they are already the largest music subscription service in Europe so I don´t think they need to worry too much.

To clarify: by largest music subscription service I mean they have largest amount of paying users, competing with Napster, Wimp, Deezer and some others….

“I’d much rather show something that works than hype it now.”

This is the exact opposite of what Spotify is doing. JUST HYPING THEIR ASSES OFF.

I don’t wish them bad, but honestly, Spotify isn’t too different from any other music subscription service out there.

Well at least the guy is walking away with 1 penny stock options and 3 years of vesting on his original grant which must have been pretty nice.

Hey Mike, I thought you were a nice guy…

I really wish you guys would drop it with the me-leaving-Twitter stuff. The original post on TechCrunch was an unfounded character assassination, which you admitted as much to me. The site was doing fine when I left in mid-March, and it crumbled two full months later due to their neglect to address scaling concerns.

Nick: [sits down with a bowl of popcorn]

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I’m a fan of Spotify and here is wishing Andreas Ehn every success with his new venture.

I am in the U.S. and have been following the Spotify development closely as of late. I understand it’s the math that is giving them trouble. That said, I don’t know a single person with an iPhone who would NOT pay $10 per month to have infinite playlist access on their phones. I understand the price may start higher but I’m certain that a substantial share of iPhone users would still pay whatever early adopter premium there is. Eventually the price will have to come down but that can wait until PDA saturation in the U.S. market is more complete. That pace will start to quicken once the full potential of Android begins to be realized over the next 18 to 24 months.

The days of owning music are over. That’s what vinyl is for. We’re all sitting around here waiting for the subscription service we expect to finally arrive. It baffles me that the music industry hasn’t learned what happens when they try to live in the past. Don’t stand in the doorway and block up the halls…

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