@rmilneNordic: Spotify chief wins backing of business families for ‘creative Davos’

Just what we need, Spotify staging another fake songwriter “genius” event now that we made him even richer.  Make you feel better about the reaming we got on MMA?

The chief executive of Spotify is teaming up with some of Europe’s leading business families to finance an annual conference they hope could be a “creative Davos” with a focus on technology and innovation. Brilliant Minds, an event set up by Daniel Ek of music streaming company Spotify and Ash Pournouri, the ex-manager of the recently deceased DJ Avicii, is now owned and financed by a group of Swedish families including the Wallenbergs, Stenbecks and Olssons, whose companies include Ericsson, Electrolux, Kinnevik, Zalando and Stena.

Read the post on the Financial Times