Spotify general counsel Petra Hansson has seen the music streaming company go from start-up to household name. She talks to Alex Aldridge about a memorable three years

Spotify, the online music streaming service, could be on the cusp of something big. The venture capital-backed company, valued at about $250m (£171m) in a fundraising last August, now boasts more than 7 million users, has just entered into profile-raising tie-ups with social networking sites Facebook and Twitter and is in talks about a US launch.

For its general counsel, Petra Hansson, these are exciting times: "It's impossible to know what is going to happen in the future, but we got this far and have had a lot of fun in the process. One of the great things counting in our favour is that we have a lot of people who really love their job and are good at what they do."