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Spotify

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Spotify has created a lightweight software application that allows instant listening to specific tracks or albums with virtually no buffering delay. It was launched in the fall of 2008 and had approximately 10 million users by September 2010.

Spotify offers streaming music from major and independent record labels including Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group, and Universal. Users download Spotify and then log onto their service enabling the on-demand streaming of music. Music can be browsed by artist, album, record label, genre or playlist as well as by direct searches.

Users can register either for free accounts supported by visual and radio-style advertising or for paid subscriptions without ads and with a range of extra features such as higher bitrate streams and offline access to music.

A paid “Premium” subscription is required to use Spotify on mobile devices.

Milestones

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  Spotify added Shakil Khan as Advisor. (1/1/09)
  Posted 5/9/12 at 4:43am
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  Spotify added Shakil Khan as Head of Special Projects. (1/1/09)
  Posted 5/9/12 at 4:42am
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  Spotify added Mike Berkley as VP Product. (4/1/12)
  Posted 4/25/12 at 9:03pm
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  Spotify added Axel Bringéus as Director International Growth. (7/15/00)
  Posted 1/28/12 at 4:26am
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  Spotify added Jim Anderson as Architect. (7/1/10)
  Posted 1/11/12 at 2:19pm
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  Spotify added Joachim Bengtsson as Lead iOS Developer. (10/7/08)
  Posted 9/6/11 at 7:18am
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  Spotify added Daniel Kennett as Mac OS X Developer. (2/7/11)
  Posted 9/5/11 at 6:06am
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  Spotify added Andrew Mager as Developer Community Manager. (8/21/11)
  Posted 8/21/11 at 5:55am
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  Spotify added Teymour Farman-Farmaian as Chief Acquisition & Retention Officer.
  Posted 8/18/11 at 8:54am
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  Spotify added Frank Meehan as Board of Directors. (1/1/09)
  Posted 8/11/11 at 5:05am
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  Spotify added Sean Parker as Board Member.
  Posted 10/22/10 at 1:40pm
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  Spotify added Andreas Ehn as CTO. (8/1/06)
  Posted 9/23/10 at 7:32am
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  Spotify added Kenneth Parks as Chief Content Officer & Managing Director, North America.
  Posted 8/3/10 at 5:20am
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  Spotify added Henrik Torstensson as Head of Premium Sales.
  Posted 6/3/10 at 1:15pm
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  Spotify added Martin Lorentzon as Co-founder.
  Posted 4/28/08 at 11:19am
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  Spotify added Daniel Ek as Co-founder.
  Posted 4/28/08 at 11:19am

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Sources

1. Capital Report Index [edit]
2. Spotify seals $50m funding while awaiting iPhone approval (mobile-ent.biz) [edit]
3. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Euro Music Service Spotify Raises $100M at $1B+ Valuation (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
Sources: Spotify Takes Investment From Sean Parker At Founders Fund (techcrunch.com) [edit]
DST About To Lead Huge Spotify Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
Spotify’s 1 Million Milestone (paidcontent.org) [edit]
Spotify Announcing US Launch; Closing European Service To Fund It (techcrunch.com) [edit]
Spotify U.S. Launch: Revolutionary or Just Another Music Streaming Service? (abcnews.go.com) [edit]
Now With 2.5 Million Customers, Spotify Tries Patenting Itself (paidcontent.org) [edit]
New round could make Spotify sing for a $3.5B valuation (venturebeat.com) [edit]
Spotify is pressing play on a new $220M round at a $4B valuation (venturebeat.com) [edit]