How Spotify's Music-Obsessed Culture Keeps Employees Hooked

For most people, having a colleague pick up a guitar and plug it into a Marshall amp in the middle of the workday would be annoying. But for Tristan Jehan, it's normal. The machine-listening specialist and cofounder of The Echo Nest has been a musician his whole life, so when his company was acquired by Spotify in March, he didn't bat an eye at suddenly being surrounded by fellow musicians.

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