Spotify is a music streaming company founded in 2006 in Sweden by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. It grew rapidly and by 2012 was experiencing strong momentum, though it reported losses in early years. As of 2017, Spotify was still unprofitable but continued expanding its business globally. The company uses a scaled agile framework inspired by Spotify's internal Tribes, Squads, Chapters model to organize large numbers of employees into autonomous cross-functional teams focused on delivering value to customers. This framework emphasizes putting culture before technology, giving teams autonomy while avoiding sub-optimization, and using metrics and feedback to continually improve.