Layoffs are a leadership failure so should always be accompanied by firing them too
It’s just insane to me that it even takes 1500 people to run Spotify to begin with
People think that because you can build a Spotify clone with two sticks and a heroku subscription it must not need a lot of people to work on. It’s what Elon said about Twitter prior to buying it and gutting all the features.
These apps are first and foremost businesses with legal, HR, and all sorts of other roles before you get to product. And the products are so mature, so complex, that you need dozens of teams to cover the entire thing
I can see the need for those engineers but more importantly, Spotify needs sales people.
Spotify is also a record label now. They probably need an entire division devoted just to the marketing and strategy needed to make that successful
Not to his paycheck, it didn’t.
They only do this for end of year bonuses for shareholders and the C level folks. They don’t give a single shit about who it affects. People’s lives were ruined over this.
Firing him would have a negligible effect. Bet.
i tought this was the onion for a second
He and the shareholders still made a ton of money. They will do it again so they can make a ton more money.
He doesn’t care and never will.
Only 1499 next time please!
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