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@suzannecloud's avatar

Wonderful idea, Tom! As you and I discussed on my podcast Philly Jazz Talks About. https://youtu.be/apNhrFLbBR8?si=fHIbvuf-l3JmD-lW

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John Chacona's avatar

Great idea, Tom. It's funny. I was just telling a friend yesterday how a greed-inspired, Carl Icahn-led bit of blackmail was the first domino to fall in a series of, let's call them financial engineering gambits, that led to the gutting of my Rust Belt hometown. I'd have to look at the ownership structure of Spotify to see if Ek has a controlling share (when my application to the music engineering program at the U was botched, I switched to the B-school, only to abandon that line of work for the greener pastures on the far fringes of music journalism). It's a longshot for sure, but nothing else seems to stop him--except for maybe a newer, more cynical and even more exploitative competitor who might make Spotify the MySpace of the vulture-capitalism-in-music space. Oy.

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