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Spotify was founded in 2006 in Stockholm, Sweden, [16] by Daniel Ek, former CTO of Stardoll, and Martin Lorentzon, co-founder of Tradedoubler. [17] [18] According to Ek, the company's title was initially misheard from a name shouted by Lorentzon. Later they conceived a portmanteau of "spot" and "identify". [19]
[10] [6] Lorentzon had previously worked at and co-founded TradeDoubler, which acquired Ek's previous company Advertigo. [11] In October 2008, the company launched its legal music streaming service Spotify. Initially, Spotify ran on a peer-to-peer distribution model, similar to μTorrent, but switched to a server-client model in 2014. [12]
Sven Hans Martin Lorentzon (pronounced [ˈmǎʈːɪn ˈlôːrɛnˌsɔn]; born 1 April 1969) is a Swedish entrepreneur and co-founder of Tradedoubler and Spotify. [1] From 2013 to 2018 he was on the board of Telia Company.
Created in 2012, the duo built the online ticketing platform during a time when buying tickets for a show was a desktop-centric experience. ... Spotify. If you’re a Spotify subscriber and you ...
Sean Parker (born December 3, 1979) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, most notable for co-founding the file-sharing computer service Napster, and was the first president of the social networking website Facebook.
All the app does is tap into Spotify's API and look for when a song starts in two locations within 100ms of each other. Then it highlights them on a map that zooms in and out, and dances about. ...
A young woman who claims she was responsible for the creation of what has become a time-honored tradition of Spotify, The post Intern who created Spotify’s ‘Wrapped’ feature says she never ...
Spotify has routinely pushed back against allegations of creating "fake artists" for the sake of listing their music on playlists. [4] With regard to PFC, they have cited user demand for background music and have denied their intention to scale up anonymously created tracks to supplant real musicians. [2]