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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek

Acquired

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The Importance of Distribution Channels in Music Tech Startups

PitchBook has all the financing events over the company's history, including pioneering the modern direct listing when Daniel and Barry McCarthy took the company public in 2018 without raising any new capital because they didn't need it. PitchBook is awesome. There's an insane amount of data. You can slice it and dice it in every way possible. So if you want to sign up for PitchBook, they are offering a free week trial for acquired listeners. Go to pitchbook.com slash acquired to get all the details and just tell them that Ben and David at acquired sent you. And then for the first time on a recent episode, we used an AI tool that our editor found it dramatically increased

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