Spotify CEO Delivers 15-Minute Speech To Employees In Defense Of Working With Joe Rogan

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Daniel Ek told employees that signing Rogan was highly beneficial for the company. "To be frank, had we not made some of the choices we did, I am confident that our business wouldn't be where it is today," he said during a recent company town hall. Ek added that he doesn't see Spotify as a publisher and that the "rules of the road are being written as we innovate."

Key Details

• Ek said that Spotify didn't have editorial control (editing episodes, removing guests, preventing publishing) over creator content, just for their own outright properties.
• "There are many things that Joe Rogan says that I strongly disagree with and find very offensive," Ek added.
• "Everyone’s a little upset, especially the people whose initiatives directly contradict what's happening," one employee said.

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