Spotify
Payman Kassaie is an experienced brand and business development professional with a strong background in leading global branding initiatives. Since December 2015, Kassaie has held various roles at Spotify, including Associate Director of Brand, Global Brand Lead, and Global Brand Manager. Prior to Spotify, Kassaie served as Senior Manager of Business Development and Strategic Partnerships at (RED) from March 2014 to December 2015. Kassaie's career began at Gilt, where Kassaie worked as a Business Development Manager from August 2010 to February 2014. Kassaie is an alumnus of Virginia Tech.
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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.