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have joined the company.

Gustav Soderstrom, Alex Nordstrom took over as from the Spotify founder, Daniel Ek.

Now, they've both been at the business for a long time, but Ek himself grew the platform from money suck to one of the most powerful businesses in the music industry.

And the new CEOs have to steer that powerful ship around some pretty tough headwinds.

AI, angry creators, user fatigue to turn around that share drop.

Bloomberg's Ashley Carman has been writing about all of this by the audio giant's leadership transition.

It's in business week

And there are a lot of headwinds.

What is front and center for them?

How are they taking on the algos and the AI story?

YouTube, not a new issue, but the biggest in front of them, it seems like.

It's very detailed in the Business Week story, this competition for eyeballs, and YouTube is the thing on both of those CEOs' desks right now, actually.

And

seem to be investing in.

We know a lot about Daniel Ek.

We've sort of grown up alongside him as he's taken this European success story global.

What do we know about the co-CEOs?

Who are they?

What are their dissents?

What are they about?