My opinion matters to Spotify executives only so much as me being a paying customer of their platform. They are free to make whatever decisions they want, but are obligated by law to make decisions that benefit their investors. If you are a paying Spotify customer, then yes, your opinion matters to the executives.

Expressing my opinion on a message board isn't a claim that the executives should listen to me.

> They are free to make whatever decisions they want, but are obligated by law to make decisions that benefit their investors.

I'm unaware of any law which requires a business to make money for investors. A business can promise to pay dividends and they can speculate on where their stock can be at a future date, but there is no legal recourse if they lose money.

This might be useful:

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2019/08/24/stakeholder-gover...

It's a meme about the case Dodge vs Ford Motor, but all that case said was you can't actively screw your shareholders. Henry Ford had a cash surplus and was deliberately trying to avoid paying dividends to the Dodge brothers.

Oh, yeah that makes sense. TIL

> But your opinion does? It must matter to you, since you spent a few paragraphs on it.

Guessing that what ljm meant was that those opinions shouldn't be important in their personal choice about what to listen to or not listen to.

I was (admittedly poorly) pointing out that the person I was replying to made some effort to share his favourable opinion, which comprises a significant part of the post, while also saying the dissenting ones (mine, Spotify staff) don't matter.

Their logic dictates that none of our opinions matter. That's fine by me; we're squabbling over nothing.

I responded above. I was talking about the opinions not mattering to decision makers in charge of investor capital.