Spotify said it's cutting about 600 jobs. CEO Daniel Ek announced the restructuring in a message to employees that was also posted online.
this month as the economic boom that the industry rode during the COVID-19 pandemic waned.
The company's operating costs last year grew at double its revenue growth, a gap that would be “unsustainable long-term” in any economic climate, but even more difficult to close with “a challenging macro environment," he said. “I hoped to sustain the strong tailwinds from the pandemic and believed that our broad global business and lower risk to the impact of a slowdown in ads would insulate us. In hindsight, I was too ambitious in investing ahead of our revenue growth," Ek said.
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