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Spotify co-founder Martin Lorentzon has offloaded a mountain of shares in the streaming giant. Rosello is a Cyprus-registered holding company owned by Almatea, a Luxembourg-based firm whose sole ...

Over $2 billion later, Spotify execs and directors still aren’t finished cashing in on company stock. Now, co-founder Martin ...

Spotify officially claims it was started because its founders ‘love music and piracy was killing it’. But a new book argues ...

Spotify was started, according to its official claims , because its founders "love music and piracy was killing it". In Mood Machine , music ...

It turns out that Spotify's daily executive meetings include a ban on the use of the words «offline» or «later», as they ...

The capitalistic turn for the music streaming platform was inevitable. Its founders Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon were advertising fellows who realised music was cheap and viewed it as a business ...

As a former Pirate Bay spokesman recounted to Pelly, “Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon were advertising dudes who wanted to sell more advertising and realized that music was cheap.” Or at least ...