Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised at negative impact of laying off 1,500 Spotify employees

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1. Serious question. How does someone this young, clueless and douchey score a CEO job at one of the biggest companies in the world?….

2. CEO surprised at all the blood after shooting self in foot

   My Spotify account was up for renewal the day after the layoff announcement and canceling them was the easiest decision ever

3. Maybe hire someone to make shuffle not repeat the same songs in the same order?

4. Why am I so sure everyone who warned him of this was fired?

   Captain of the Titanic wants to know why the ship sank. Cool story.

5. Just in case anyone needed more evidence that CEO pay rates are as unjustifiable as they are obscene.

6. Guy looks like a douche.

7. No wonder people just read headlines. Tried to read the article and was bombarded with ads and pop ups.

8. Another clueless tech bro

9. Cancels them yrs ago with the Rogan bs

10. All of these CEOs are convinced AI is ready to replace real people. These are hopefully valuable lessons learned.

11. Idiot doesn’t understand basic principles of efficiency, gets paid more than everyone else still.

12. CEO’s are just so disconnected from the human element of…anything. It’s like a requirement in the tech sector, doubly in startups. Like these clowns haven’t cultivated any understanding of other people, it’s like talking to a cat. They don’t really understand how groups work, how interdependencies form, etc. All they know is “get the next round of funding” and the Elon Musk school of broken-steering-wheel changes of direction.

13. I truly hate this dude. I think he’s had more of a negative effect on the music industry than anyone in my lifetime.

14. Start tying CEO pay to the most bottom earners. Everytime CEO gets pay increase so does everyone else.

    Also min wage pegged with inflation. Every year inflation rises so does min wage. No idea why corporations get to keep that for themselves.