Frustrated by his dwindling authority, Andreas Ehn started feeling estranged from his own company. Surely the engineers had better things to do. Spotify was clearly too big to be cobbling together its own software.

“This do-it-yourself attitude made no sense to his new, business-oriented colleagues. The CTO wanted to design the software instead of procuring externally but his stand didn’t get encouraged. The company’s reliance on business developers and marketing people and its attempts to please the music industry displeased Andreas severely, as per Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud’s ‘Spotify Untold,’ the source text of the show.Īndreas’ time at Spotify took a wild turn when the company decided to procure a particular enterprise software. Daniel and Andreas, as the show depicts, weren’t always in agreement when it came to the growth of the streaming platform. In March 2007, Andreas and two other colleagues did the finishing touches to give birth to the streaming platform and the CTO registered as the first-ever user of the service.

Andreas and his team worked hard to tweak the BitTorrent technology to fulfill their requirements.

Martin lorentzon