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Re:Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit by amigoingtodie on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @06:53PM (#16057063)
I am guessing stock options/vesting.

I believe Alanis took mp3.com stock as payment.

That was a different time.

The Beam-it software was pretty cool.

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Re:Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit by ssharp on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @08:21AM (#16060715)
It was a different time, but probably not that different figuratively.

Things like Shatner taking Priceline stock to be their spokesperson played into the dot-com mania narrative of the time, but now that's seen as a shrewd business move. 50 Cent had a $60-100 million exit with Vitamin Water and Lebron had a $30 million exit with Beats.

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