Paul Vogel, CFO, Spotify
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Spotify’s CFO Paul Vogel quits (with $12.6mn)

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  • Slate writes about “the casualties of the podcasting bloodbath”, joining a slew of articles this week highlighting that big podcasts aren’t necessarily successful podcasts. Another is from TechCrunch: Everything you know about the podcast industry is a lie, with a nice quote from Multitude’s Eric Silver: “Spotify is not all of podcasting, although they act as if they are, and make choices as if they’re the only one in the room. Podcasting is not dead.” This.

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