Overview
TrueUp
Trajectory Score
83
/100
Trajectory Rank
Business
Music streaming service
Founded
20 years ago
Apr 23, 2006
Employees
7,000
TrueUp
Rank
#303
Valuation
$104 billion
TrueUp
Rank
#69
Company type
Public$SPOT
Spotify is a Music streaming service company with 168 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 →
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Jobs
Open jobs
168
TrueUp
Rank
#245
Top Job Categories
Jobs
1.
Engineering (Software)
77
(46%)
2.
Artificial Intelligence
30
(18%)
3.
Marketing & Growth
27
(16%)
4.
Finance
11
(7%)
5.
Data Science
10
(6%)
Top Job Locations
Jobs
1.
🇺🇸 United States
67
(40%)
2.
🌎 Remote
66
(39%)
3.
🇺🇸 New York City
63
(38%)
4.
🇬🇧 London, UK
46
(27%)
5.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
46
(27%)
Top Tech/Tools Mentioned
Jobs
1.
Python
40
(24%)
2.
Java
37
(22%)
3.
LLM
34
(20%)
4.
Google Cloud
22
(13%)
5.
SQL
21
(13%)
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
TrueUp
Rank
#328
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
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33.4K
backstage
Policies
Remote work policy
Remote work is common
Open jobs that are remote
39% (66 jobs)
Same pay everywhere?
(same work, same pay)
Yes
H1B sponsorships approved (2025)
29
TrueUp
Rank
#60
External research
Top posts
Other info
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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