Overview
TrueUp
Trajectory Score
83
/100
Trajectory Rank
Business
Music streaming service
Founded
20 years ago
Apr 23, 2006
Employees
7,000
TrueUp
Rank
#208
Valuation
$104 billion
TrueUp
Rank
#68
Company type
Public$SPOT
Spotify is a Music streaming service company with 149 job openings. It is currently valued at $104 billion as a public company. 7,000 people work at Spotify. The company was founded in 2006.
Company grid
Employee happiness →
Growth →
🚀
🐢
😊
😟
Jobs
Open jobs
149
TrueUp
Rank
#294
Top Job Categories
Jobs
1.
Engineering (Software)
60
(40%)
2.
Marketing & Growth
33
(22%)
3.
Artificial Intelligence
21
(14%)
4.
Finance
9
(6%)
5.
Policy
9
(6%)
Top Job Locations
Jobs
1.
🌎 Remote
56
(38%)
2.
🇺🇸 United States
55
(37%)
3.
🇺🇸 New York City
51
(34%)
4.
🇬🇧 London, UK
42
(28%)
5.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
42
(28%)
Top Tech/Tools Mentioned
Jobs
1.
Python
28
(19%)
2.
Java
27
(18%)
3.
LLM
23
(15%)
4.
Google Cloud
17
(11%)
5.
PyTorch
15
(10%)
Financials
Revenue
$21billion
trailing 12mo
TrueUp
Rank
#47
Spotify's revenue would rank #129 among country GDPs
#128
Gabon$21 B
Gabon$21 B#129Spotify$21 B
Spotify$21 B#130
Lebanon$20 B
Lebanon$20 BRevenue growth (vs. same quarter last year)
8.2%
TrueUp
Rank
#338
MULTIPLES
Valuation per employee
$14.9 million
Revenue per employee
$2.9 million
Culture
Employee sentiment
Would recommend company
77%
1,000+ reviews
Sources: TrueUp, Glassdoor, Blind
Better than 74% of tech co's
Approve of CEO
Daniel Ek
77%
Sources: TrueUp, Glassdoor, Blind
People
Employees
7,000
Spotify Org Chart
Rankings and awards
TIME100 Most Influential Companies
Entertainment
2026
Fortune Most Admired
2026
Coatue Fantastic 40
2025
Fortune 500 Europe
2025
More rankings Layoffs
Jun 2025 · 1 year ago
15 impacted
Jul 2024 · 2 years ago
40 impacted
Dec 2023 · 3 years ago
1,500 impacted17%
Jul 2023 · 3 years ago
+6 more layoff events
Open source
Top open source projects
★
33.4K
backstage
Policies
Remote work policy
Remote work is common
Open jobs that are remote
38% (56 jobs)
Same pay everywhere?
(same work, same pay)
Yes
H1B sponsorships (2025)
90
TrueUp
Rank
#122
External research
Top posts
History
Associated billionaires(Sources: Forbes, Bloomberg, Wikipedia)
$10.7B - Martin Lorentzon
$9.7B - Daniel Ek
IPO date
Apr 3, 2018
8 years ago
Top owners at IPO
25.7% - Daniel Ek
13.2% - Martin Lorentzon
7.5% - Tencent
6.9% - Tiger Global
5.7% - Sony Music
5.4% - TCV
Founder ownership at IPO
38.9%
Implied founder equity split
66% - Daniel Ek
34% - Martin Lorentzon
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