The CEO of Sonos, the high-end music streaming and smart speaker system, has written in a blog post that the company is letting go of some of its employees in an organisational restructure, as it prepares to introduce a "voice-enabled music experience into the home," in competition with Amazon's Echo and integrated voice-activated AI personal assistant Alexa. In his post, which was published on Monday, Mr Ek said he would be leaving the company, but did not give any details about what role he'd been playing at the company.
The CEO of Sonos, the high-end music streaming and smart speaker system, has written in a blog post that the company is letting go of some of its employees in an organisational restructure, as it prepares to introduce a "voice-enabled music experience into the home," in competition with Amazon's Echo and integrated voice-activated AI personal assistant Alexa. "We're going to focus on building incredibly rich experiences that were all but unimaginable when we started the company, and will be at the vanguard of what it means to listen to music at home," he wrote.