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I can’t tell if this is sarcasm … it’s sarcasm right? Based on the entire history of startups, you truly don’t believe that companies can focus on user growth or profitability, and those directions have different levers?

Why do you call Spotify a startup? It was founded over 15 years ago. Hundreds of thousands of companies have come and gone during this time.

Is it because they aren't profitable just yet? How many more years are you willing to wait?

Why not? You don’t think they could eek out an additional 70 cents per month per customer if they wanted to focus on that right now?

"Hi marketing department! You're losing 50% of staff and 80% of advertising budget!"

bam, growth -> profitability!

How could there not be? Fire all the people who were working on growth.