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[–] snownyte@kbin.social 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This guy right here is the reason some 1,500 jobs were lost from Spotify.

Talk about overpaid piece of shit.

[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Wonder if the guy who greenlit this shit idea also saw the axe

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t see reports on a direct connection - remember where you heard that?

[–] kumatomic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Not the original commenter here but this one doesn't make a direct connection, but certainly says Spotify blew money poorly that they are trying to make up for, although it mainly mentions cuts in podcasts. This one make s bit more of a correlation saying "The cancellations coincide with jobs cuts at Spotify Monday that eliminated 17% of the streaming company’s staff, or around 1,500 people. Spotify has undertaken several rounds of job cuts since October 2022. " https://fortune.com/2023/12/04/spotify-podcasts-cancelled-heavyweight-stolen/ However you're not going to find much more than that because it would require a degree of openness and honest that a shitty company isn't going to give. So it's hard to say a direct connection doesn't exist when all the data on that is kept secret by the people who profit from it.