Happy Monday: The MTP SPOTify Chart
Spotify just had its second “death cross” in less than 6 months where the the 50 day moving average crosses the 100 day moving average to the downside.
Category: Spotify IPO
MTP Podcast: Spotify’s Direct Public Offering
Chris Castle explains Spotify’s direct public offering (compared to a traditional IPO) and commentary on how the stock is performing (NOT investment advice).
$20 Million a Month Daniel Ek Shows “Million a Month” Tim Westergren How It’s Done
Remember when we were all appalled that Pandora founder Tim Westergren was making $1,000,000 a month from selling Pandora stock while he was behind fighting songwriters in rate court for ASCAP and BMI royalties and stiffing artists with the Internet Radio Fairness Act and refusing to pay pre-72 artists? And then there was the 13 bathroom house in Marin. It was all a bit hard to stomach.
According to Jem Aswad in Variety, Daniel Ek is putting Westergren in the rear view mirror for sheer excess.
Here Come the SPOT Analysts
It’s still very early days for stock analysts to reach a consensus about Spotify except for one thing–royalties are too damn high. We have, of course, heard this one before–remember Pandora? When Tim Westergren was cashing out his stock to the tune of $1 million a month and the company was wasting money hand over […]
Spotify IPO Watch: Making it Up on Volume or See SPOT Run
It’s still early days for the Spotify public offering (more correctly called a “DPO” for “direct public offering” but since no one knows what that means, I used IPO in the headline). But sure as a $50 handshake, interesting patterns may be developing in the basic trading elements of price and volume.
Spotify IPO Watch: Buy High, Sell Low — Music Tech Solutions
Is Spotify’s unusual “DPO” approach and bizarre $132 selling price simply a way for insiders to short the stock? See SPOT run! Run SPOT run! Here’s an interesting anecdote about that imminent Spotify stock offering. Remember, Spotify is rumored to price at $132 per share based on private market trades (on a split adjusted basis, […]
You Can’t Find What You Don’t Look For: @theDavidCrosby Gets Screwed Twice by Big Tech
David Crosby was born the wrong year–and can’t be found by Spotify.
How Shareholder Lawsuits Against Spotify May Have Just Gotten Easier
Spotify is rigging the shareholder voting rights in its soon to be public stock and also rigging songwriters rights to statutory damages in the Music Modernization Act. But they can’t stop shareholder derivative suits which may have them running for statutory damages at the end of the day.
So Much for Conversion: Apple Set to Pass Spotify in Subscribers
Remember this one? Spotify was saving us all from piracy by giving the music for free in its ad supported tier. And if you had any doubts about that, just ask any Spotify employee, particularly circa 2011 or so. They’d tell you in no uncertain terms that not only did you just not get it, […]
The Slippery Slope of Censorship: @HuffPost Pulls Story Critical of @Spotify Ahead of IPO — The Trichordist
Blake Morgan wrote a post critical of Spotify on Huffington Post and the HuffPo censored him–until David Lowery came along…
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