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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 ...

Despite Ek’s early fumblings on the guitar, Spotify’s founders never really cared about music. As a former Pirate Bay spokesman recounted to Pelly, “Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon were ...

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect ... Its founders Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon were advertising fellows who realised music was cheap and viewed it as a business ...

Spotify was started, according to its official claims, because its founders “love music and piracy was killing it”.