• zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    This really, really sucks. WhoSampled is awesome, especially for sample heavy music from the 80s and 90s. They’ve been around over a decade, weird to call them a startup. While I am pissed, if Spotify came and offered me a truck load of money for something I was running and probably making little to no money, I can’t say it wouldn’t be tempting.

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    I hate the culture of startup selling themselves to big companies

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      2 days ago

      Launched in 2008…

      Is it really a startup if it was started during the Bush administration?

      Spotify itself started in 2006

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        This is such a random acquisition. It’s like IMDB buying some film aficionado’s tumblr profile.

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      thats often the life of a startup. most startups end up failing (~80%). the other 20% hope their hustle gets them big enough to be bought out so they can then relax more.

      the people who work startups dont want to be working that job indefinitely. especially since it often entails being overworked.

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        I dont blame them either, Id take the buyout if it set up all my employees with a few million

        Big if if i was a person who did any of this

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      It’s their dream to be bought and live long without working anymore. Of course not everyone dream, but the most common.

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      This really does choke innovation, market share and is strongly considered market monopolistic behaviors.

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    We are the Spotify. Lower your webpage and surrender your songs. We will add your userbase and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.

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    Interesting. This will probably enable them to get significantly closer to their goal. I’ve tried their site a few times but it only had really mainstream, obvious samples. If Spotify can combine their song data with whatever system they have that isn’t just user-contributed, it’ll probably be significantly more useful.

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      If it can be used so that Spotify can FINALLY offer live streaming/replays of live sets so I no longer have to go to youtube that would be amazing