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Spotify Competitor Deezer Raises Big Round

Deezer, the Spotify-like streaming music service that is big in France, has raised a reported $130 million in a round led by Warner Music Group owner Access Industries. Of that, $30 million will supposedly be used to buy out existing shareholders. Earlier this week Deezer invited press to an October 10 event where it said it would reveal “details of a major new funding investment.”


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The best and brightest are usually put to work on optimisation. … They will then go forward and solve the inefficiencies, and that’s where 99% of most energy is spent on. But, at some point you run out of room to improve things, and that’s when you have to step aside and ask, can we make it different?

— Horace Dediu, in a podcast interview with William Channer