Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAhead of Spotify’s earnings call for its second-quarter results, the company’s cofounder and CEO Daniel Ek and CFO Paul Vogel got on the phone for a short call with Variety’s Jem Aswad and Todd Spangler.
The conversation follows in full.How do you launch in 12 countries, including Russia, during a pandemic? Was a lot of the ground work already done?Ek: Yeah, this was a fun one!
We’ve had a virtual war room for quite some time, but you’re entirely right, usually when we launch in markets we start much, much, much earlier when we build up the market launches, and sometimes it’s even years in advance to secure all the licenses and partnerships that we need to in order to enter thoughtfully into those markets on.
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