With its latest recruitment takes Spotify a step further in video content, but a step away from equality.
Swedish musikstreamingtjänsten Spotify has given a seat on the board to Ted Sarandos, innehållschef on Netflix.
According to the tekniksajten Recode suggest the appointment of Ted Sarandos on to Spotify to take a step further towards the videosegmentet. It börsaktuella the company has since half a year back started posting some video clips from tv networks such as Comedy Central on their mobile app, and now by their own originalvideos.
With Ted Sarandos of the board of directors hopes to become even better in the video, especially considering that Netflix-the manager negotiates all of the company’s agreements with film studios and television networks.
Spotify’s chief financial officer Barry McCarthy, with the previous background on Netflix, joined also initially as a member of the board. He left the role last year, when he was appointed to the company’s chief financial officer.
in Addition to McCarthy and Sarandos sitting since before the founders Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon as well as Napster-founder Sean Parker and Pär-Jörgen Pärson at the investment company Northzone in Spotify’s board of directors.
Daniel Ek has previously stated that gender equality is a critical business issue.
“Women are half of our target audience, then it can’t just be men that work with the product. We need to get a more even distribution, not least on the leading entries in our organization,” he said in an interview with Breakit last year.
In the interview recognises the Ek to Spotify needs to improve when it comes to the gender distribution in the board of directors.
“All we techbolag is very poor in this area, so it is quite simple. We need to raise us much, much more,” he says.
a year and A half later, however, it has not happened anything, but Spotify continues to fill up with men in the board of directors.
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