Spotify
Kim Wijk is an accomplished Engineering Manager at Spotify, responsible for leading a cross-functional team to develop Jam on the platform since January 2021. Prior experience includes serving as CTO at Soundation, where leadership was provided to a software engineering team developing web-based music collaboration tools. Kim has also held various engineering management roles at BBH Stockholm, Welcome App, Schibsted, and Blocket, demonstrating expertise in transforming business objectives into technical solutions and fostering collaboration across teams. In earlier roles, Kim held positions such as Director of Engineering at Solid Media Group AS and Senior Software Engineer at multiple organizations, focusing on innovative project delivery and modern engineering practices. Kim co-founded the music tech company SAVANT and has a strong background in natural and computer science education.
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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.