This Post Isn’t About Leaving Spotify
Everyone seems to want that post. The glossy Medium essay. The heartfelt goodbye. The heroic leap into the unknown.
Well, this isn’t that post — but here’s my leaked exit interview from back when I left my gig at Spotify:
And although I left the company, I took the job with me.
I am now your very own Head of Innovation and Market Intelligence here at
. I’ll be doing the same kind of trend, culture, and tech forecasting I did at Spotify but now it’s on the Internet for the Internet, with far fewer NDAs (and compensation).After all, this post wasn’t about leaving Spotify… And this wasn’t my goodbye email:
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