Yesterday, Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek announced that he’ll be stepping down in the new year . Two of his top executives, Gustav Söderström, chief product and technology officer, and Alex Norström, chief business officer, will take over as co-CEOs in his place.
With that news, the music streamer became the third company to choose the co-CEO route within the space of just over a week. A few days earlier, on Sept 29, Comcast said that its sitting CEO Brian Roberts will be joined by Michael Cavanagh , former president, in January. (The arrangement is being read as part of a succession plan.) And at Oracle a week before, ex-CEO Safra Catz moved into the vice-chair role, and was replaced by Clay Magouyrk, former head of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and Mike Sicilia, who previ