What Gutierrez did offer, though, was an insight into his experiences on the job, right around the one-year anniversary of when he uprooted his family - his wife, Morella, and three children - from Redmond, Washington, to the city that never sleeps. “No,” he said, across the conference room table at Spotify’s flat iron digs, which will next year move to the more grownup, 4 World Trade Center. When asked if he could speak to public reports of a potential IPO, Gutierrez’s face reddened and buried what looked like a smile behind his knuckles.
Bloomberg News reported last year that Spotify aims for an initial public offering in the second half of 2017 and could be valued at more than $8 billion. His thoughts about Microsoft - and what led him to join Spotify - could be taken as a foreshadowing of sorts. “Even though it had grown in significant ways, it was no longer this feeling of being part of the project to help launch a new company.” that is something that, around, the opportunity had closed,” said Gutierrez in a sit down interview with Big Law Business on Tuesday. “I felt almost as though, if I had the opportunity to join Microsoft in 1982, before the company became public, and if I had become part of the seminal group of people to take the company public, and continue to grow it and expand it around the world. The 52-year-old lawyer had spent 18 years working up the ranks of the technology giant, earning himself a promotion to General Counsel and Corporate Vice President just six months before a headhunter convinced him to jump ship.
Make sure you are in a quiet room and can minimize background noise.When Horacio Gutierrez left Microsoft Corporation last year to lead the law department at Spotify, he placed a bet on the music streaming company’s future.
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