Spotify is going public 🤑

Spotify is going public today in an unusual way. Instead of using a bank, they're IPOing with an uncommon funding mechanism: a direct listing. Shareholders and employees will be able to sell their equity, but Spotify isn't actually raising any new funding by issuing new shares.

Quick facts about the IPO:

Unlike most other executive teams, Spotify's co-founders will retain 80% of the voting power. 👀
The mega-unicorn will trade as $SPOT.
In the last three months of 2017, Spotify lost $7.9M every day.

The Product Hunt community loves Spotify, with dozens of integrated apps and tools to enhance your music-listening experience:

👂 Listen lets you add songs to Spotify playlists with your keyboard.
📻 JQBX is like turntable.fm (RIP).
🔈 Pacemaker+ makes it easy to DJ (it’s truly amazing).
🤔 Forgotify finds the poor songs that have never been played.
🗓️ Your 2017 Wrapped curates your favorite songs from last year.
📊 Spotify.me builds beautiful analytics about your listening habits.
🖥️ Skip Tunes lets you control Spotify from your menubar.
🎤 Find Your Best Festival finds your next favorite music festivals based on your listening history.

Discover the 20 Best Spotify products before they're public 💸

Best spotify apps 🎵

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They kept using words like colleague, coworker, team member. One CEO called it the glue holding their e-commerce business together, which is a lot, but also… you see why. It lives in Slack and plugs into 3,000+ tools, so instead of jumping between tabs, you just ask for the thing. Pull Stripe against HubSpot, check Sentry alerts, spin up a campaign brief, build a landing page, send a report upstairs. It all happens there.

It has already hit top 5 on Product Hunt with 130 comments, is SOC 2 certified, and your data does not train models.

One user said it was the first time AI felt like a real coworker, which is either exciting or slightly concerning depending on your week.