Spotify CEO Daniel Ek defended Joe Rogan's podcast in a town-hall. In a 15-minute speech at a company town hall on Wednesday, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek defended the company's decision to continue airing Joe Rogan's controversial podcast, according to a leaked audio.
"If we want even a shot at achieving our bold ambitions, it will mean having content on Spotify that many of us may not be proud to be associated with," Ek said, according to The Verge. "Not anything goes, but there will be opinions, ideas, and beliefs that we disagree with strongly and even makes us angry or sad."
We were locked out of deals with some critical hardware partners like Amazon, Google, and even Tesla," Ek added. "To combat this, we needed to find leverage. And one way we could do this was in the form of exclusives, specifically with voices like Joe Rogan.
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