Spotify
Dhruvank Vaidya is an experienced professional in the media and entertainment sector, currently serving as the Head of Music & Podcasts and Head of Podcasts India at Spotify since March 2021. Prior to this role, Dhruvank held various leadership positions, including Director of M&A at Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd., where strategic decisions for diverse sectors were made. Dhruvank was also the Head of Business Development at TO THE NEW Ventures, focusing on digital business scale-up across Asia. As a co-founder and COO of The Adaptation Company, Dhruvank bridged publishing and audio-visual industries. Previous experiences include leadership roles at Lumiere Movies, NDTV Imagine Limited, STAR TV, Deloitte Consulting, and Accenture. Dhruvank holds an MBA in Finance, Strategy, and Operations from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics/Electricals from Mumbai University.
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Spotify
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Spotify is an audio and media streaming service that hosts music, podcasts and tv shows. Founded in 2008, Spotify has grown to one of the largest streaming platforms in the world, offering over 70 million tracks to its 360+ million users across 170+ markets. They are headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden with offices in over a dozen countries. Spotify’s mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it. Spotify helps users to discover, manage, and share music on their phone, computer or tablet by browsing through the collections of friends, artists, and celebrities, by creating a radio station, or by curating their own playlists. A leader in revenue generation for the music industry, over 1,000 artists generated over $1 million on Spotify in 2021, 450 generations more than $2 million, and 130 generated over $5 million. Spotify also paid out over $1 billion dollars to publishing rights holders (songwriters and producers) in 2021.