That said, it’ll be nice not to work in a company which is constantly subject to perplexingly arbitrary rules and unrealistic royalties set by increasingly out-of-touch record labels.

It feels like a lot of my work in the last few years has been trying to prevent myself from being such a single point of failure. It’s quite a relief to be in a situation where I can finally leave.

As for what I’m doing next; I’m going to work for Smarkets heading up tech operations. I think it’ll be quite a different challenge to Last.fm, and it’ll be great to work for a proper startup again. It should be fun.

(If you’re interested in coming to work for Last.fm, we have a couple of vacancies in our ops department on a variety of levels.)