The Spotify Play - How CEO and Founder Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon in the Race for Audio Dominance (Paperback)

The American edition of the revelatory Swedish book Spotify Untold, the basis of the new Netflix Original series The Playlist, out now! "Two excellent Swedish journalists recount the historic rise of the company that changed modern music not just as a riveting business tale, but as a lesson in tech geopolitics. Spotify's Daniel Ek shows why Silicon Valley does not always win."--David Kirkpatrick, New York Times bestselling author of The Facebook Effect Steve Jobs tried to stop this moment from ever happening. Google and Microsoft made bids to preempt it. The music industry blocked it time and again. Yet, on a summer's eve in 2011, the whiz kid CEO of a Swedish start-up celebrated his company's US launch. In the midst of the Apple-Android tech war and a music label crusade against piracy and illegal downloading, Spotify redrew the battle lines, sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley, and got the hardline executives at Universal, Sony, and Warner to sign with its "free-mium" platform. In The Spotify Play, now adapted into an upcoming Netflix Original series, Swedish investigative tech journalists Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud, who covered the company from its inception, draw upon hundreds of interviews, previously untapped sources, and in-depth reporting on figures like Mark Zuckerberg, Sean Parker, Steve Jobs, Taylor Swift, Jay-Z, Pony Ma Huateng, and Jimmy Iovine. They have captured the riveting David vs. Goliath story of a disruptive innovator who played the industry giants in a quest to revolutionize the consumption of sound, building today's largest online source of audio, with more than 50 million songs, one million-plus podcasts, and over 300 million users.

General

Imprint:	Diversion Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2021
Authors:	Sven Carlsson • Jonas Leijonhufvud
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-1-63576-744-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > History of specific institutions Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > Music industry Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > Information technology industries Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > History > History of specific subjects > History of specific institutions Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	1-63576-744-X
Barcode:	9781635767445

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