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Antoine Le Nel, CGO @Revolut: How Revolut Launch and Grow Products & Why CAC is a BS Metric | E1216 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:13 Harry Stebbings I was thinking to Gustav at Spotify, who's the CPO of Spotify, and he says, you know, talk is cheap, so we should do a lot more of it, and it's, 2 times in the scene
David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:25 Harry Stebbings You know, the, the only one that I can say disproves it is Spotify. 5 times in the scene
Maria Angelidou:Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue |E1210 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:25 Harry Stebbings Gustav at Spotify, who I love, uh, and he's right, and I'm wrong on this, just to be very clear, but he always says talk is cheap, and so he should do more of it when it comes to, like, strategic direction, where to go, and kind of,
Phil Carter: Growth Loops, CAC + LTV Benchmarks, Pricing, Discounts, Paywalls... | E1204 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:18 Phil Carter If you look at the number of Duolingo's, Spotify's, tenders, uh, there just aren't that many of them, right?
- ▶ 41:50 Harry Stebbings You mentioned some great consumer subscription businesses that Tinder, Spotify being two of them.
- ▶ 52:08 Harry Stebbings Spotify goes, hey, Dua Lipa's new album came out.
Mike Hudack: How Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Build Great Products | E1201 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:52 Harry Stebbings Um, you know, I had Gustav from Spotify on the show. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:52 Mike Hudack You know, there's a line, you can imagine a, a, a version of Spotify that only has a play button, and maybe, uh, you can thumbs up, thumbs down, and Spotify plays to you the best music that it can think to play to you at the moment based…
Kaz Nejatian: How Shopify Built a $90BN Business to Last 100 Years | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:53 Harry Stebbings I had Gustav, the CPO of Spotify on the show, and he said, you know, talk is cheap, so we should do a lot more of it.
David Cahn: Why Servers, Steel and Power Are the Pillars Powering the Future of AI | E1186 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:08 David Cahn Think about how much value you get from Spotify.
Jason Lemkin: Crowdstrike, WTF Happens From Here? Wiz Rejects Google’s $23BN Acquisition Offer|E1181 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:07 Jason Lemkin I mean, 70% of Spotify, Shopify's revenue is from payments and merchant services, not from SaaS, 70%.
Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:20 Kevin Hartz I think they sold Spotify at the eight billion dollar price, pissed off, what's his name?
Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:58 Harry Stebbings So, so actually on that then, you know, we had Gustav from Spotify on the show.
Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:20 Harry Stebbings When you look at Daniel Eck at Spotify, I mean, I'm sure he'll say this, he said it publicly.
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:39 Danny Rimer One is Spotify, another one is Snap, another one's Airbnb, another one's LinkedIn.
- ▶ 13:06 Danny Rimer And then with Spotify, actually, you know, music has become more pervasive, but albums have shifted. 3 times in the scene
Janie Lee: Three Core Skills that Make the Best PMs | E1165 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:03 Harry Stebbings It's interesting, one of my great friends is Gustav Soderstrom, he's the CPO at Spotify, and he said that talk is cheap, and so we should do more of it. 2 times in the scene
Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:59 Harry Stebbings Do you think, so it was Gustav at Spotify, I know we have this schedule, we'll also get to it.
Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:50 Harry Stebbings Daniel Eckert, Spotify, you name these great founders that we have, the Collisons at Stripe,
Adam Gross: Why Startups Doing Paid Under $100M ARR are not PLG | E1145 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:01 Harry Stebbings Alex Nordstrom is the co-president and the chief business officer, head of growth at Spotify, and he talks about committing surgery on yourself, which is essentially examining yourself in that core moment of intersection
Rujul Zaparde: Why Hiring Inexperienced People is Better | E1144 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:17 Harry Stebbings The, the CP of Spotify says the details are not the details.
Girish Mathrubootham (HINDI): Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:23 Girish Mathrubootham مجھے یہاں خود میں چھوٹے چھوٹے بدلاو کرنا پسند ہے مجھے پوچھنا ہی ہوگا ایسا لگتا ہے کہ کچھ ہے بھارت اور یوروپ کی اکثر ایک ہی طرح سے وشیشتہ کی جاتی ہے جو ہر پیڑھی میں ہم کہتے ہیں اب یوروپی اٹیک کا سمیں ہے یا اب بھارتی اٹیک کا سمیں ہے اور ہم…
Girish Mathrubootham: Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR | E1142 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:53 Harry Stebbings There's amazing companies like Freshworks, or Spotify in Europe, or, but there's not that many.
Trae Stephens: Why No Company is Successful Because of their VC | E1135 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:54 Trae Stephens Uh, you know, Spotify, Stripe, Airbnb, Palantir, SpaceX, Andrel, um, stem centric.
Jean-Michel Lemieux: Three Product Decisions Every Team Needs to Make | E1129 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:30 Jean-Michel Lemieux I'm like, Hey, can you talk about how you do infrared on this?
Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:11 Nicolai Tangen So before we had, uh, Daniel Ek or Spotify on, you know, I have to learn about the music industry.
Thomas Plantenga & Alex Taussig: Vinted CEO's Ultimate Guide to Scaling Marketplaces | E1114 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:03 Harry Stebbings Like, you've had, like, Adyen, you've had Spotify, Revolut's not liquid yet, but it will be in that ilk, but that's it.
Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:03 Harry Stebbings I talked with the heads of product from Adobe, LinkedIn, and Spotify, and we covered everything from LLM predictions in 2024 to how product teams should adopt AI.
- ▶ 1:25 Gustav Söderström And, uh, similar to Scott, I started and sold a few companies and then, um, I've worked at Spotify for almost 15 years now as a CPO and then CTO. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:45 Gustav Söderström I mean, users never came to Spotify to click buttons.
- ▶ 5:27 Scott Belsky When I'm interacting with, uh, with Spotify's DJ, you know, and the DJ's like cracking jokes and like being casual with me.
- ▶ 5:27 Scott Belsky When I'm interacting with, uh, with Spotify's DJ, you know, and the DJ's like cracking jokes and like being casual with me.
- ▶ 14:25 Gustav Söderström From Spotify's point of view, um, most of the stuff we've built in-house, to Tamara's point, is actually mostly about cost. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:04 Harry Stebbings I was going to ask you, each of you have incredible amounts of data, you know, LinkedIn, Adobe, Spotify, insane amounts of user data.
- ▶ 26:43 Harry Stebbings Why doesn't Spotify create its own models, Gustav? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:13 Gustav Söderström I think for Spotify, for example, when we started, it was the business model of streaming.
- ▶ 52:36 Gustav Söderström We call it, uh, fighting the entropy in Spotify.
- ▶ 54:29 Harry Stebbings What are you most excited about when you look at AI in the coming years and what it can do for everyone, but also for Spotify? 2 times in the scene
Geoff Charles: How To Hire Product Teams & Increase Product Velocity | E1091 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:55 Harry Stebbings And then I think to Gustav Soderstrom, who's the CPO at Spotify, who said on the show, talk is cheap, so we should do more of it.
Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:10 Harry Stebbings Well, it also opens up in my mind, like paid search, because if you are a provider, you could pay Apple to say, Hey, if you're Spotify, you could pay Apple to say, Hey, when someone says play Jay-Z,
- ▶ 1:23:20 Des Traynor Other than that, like, maybe I, I think I'd love to go to Spotify and basically say, like, we're doing a new thing called Spotify Live, where we cover all soccer. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23:20 Des Traynor Other than that, like, maybe I, I think I'd love to go to Spotify and basically say, like, we're doing a new thing called Spotify Live, where we cover all soccer.
David Meyer: Why You Should Hire People Who Aren’t In Product Already | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:30 Harry Stebbings I've had Gustav at Spotify say on the show, pfft, 99% science.
Kevin Niparko: Big Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring Product Teams | E1066 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:55 Harry Stebbings If we think about, like, speed, efficiency, systematization, when we're doing product discussions, Gustav, the CPO at Spotify, said on the show, talk is cheap, and so we should do more of it.
- ▶ 8:45 Harry Stebbings You know, again, Gustav at Spotify, he was contrarian.
Christian Lanng: "How Being a Founder Almost Killed Me" | E1065 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:07:00 Christian Lanng Spotify, Booking.com, all of this.
Christian Kleinerman: Do OpenAI and Anthropic Have a Sustaining Moat? Who Wins the AI Wars? | E1063 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:55 Harry Stebbings I had Gustav, who's the CPO at Spotify on the show, and he says, talk is cheap.
Suchit Dash: Scaling Dubsmash to 43M Users, Battling TikTok & Joining Reddit | E1060 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:08 Suchit Dash We started to see rap songs starting to become actually viral on, on Spotify as a result of this.
Jason Lemkin & Rick Zullo: How "Mark to Market" Corrupted Venture Capital | E1052 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:19 Harry Stebbings When you look at the companies over ten billion in Europe, as an example, you know, you've got Spotify, you've got ADN, um, you know, Revolut is valued over ten billion, but the idea of like, oh, you don't have to see them all. 2 times in the scene
Vinod Khosla: How AI Impacts Healthcare, Energy, Geo-Politics, Media and Climate Change | E1045 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:03 Harry Stebbings Is it in the aggregator, your Spotify of the world?
Adam Mosseri: Why Video Is Bad For Business; Does Feed Matter Anymore? | E1039 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:45 Harry Stebbings I, I, I love Gustav, who's a CPA at Spotify.
Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 31:57 Harry Stebbings It's so funny, one of my great friends is Gustav Soderstrom, who's a CPA at Spotify, and he says, details are not details, they are the product.
Alex Lebrun: Why the EU's AI Regulation is a Disaster; How Zuck Prepares for Meetings | E1027 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:50 Harry Stebbings It's funny, one of my friends is Gustav Soderstrom, who's the CPO at Spotify, and he says, talk is cheap,
Noah Weiss: How to Master Product-Led Growth; Scaling PLG to Enterprise at Google & Slack | E1026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:25 Harry Stebbings I had Gustav Soders from the CPU at Spotify on the show recently, and he said, talk is cheap,
Nico Wittenborn: Consumer Subscription Apps; Using Evolutionary Biology to Invest; Solo GP's | E1017 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:18 Nico Wittenborn Like our willingness to pay for software as a, on a subscription basis was pioneered by the Netflix's, the Spotify's, and this is something that happened before.
- ▶ 1:09:25 Nico Wittenborn I think, I also think Spotify, Netflix potentially are interested in some of those more content focused companies at one point, maybe even interactive ones that are going into gaming more and things like that.
Chris Paik: How I Raised $400M; Substack's Broken Business Model; Music on TikTok vs IG | E1011 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:17 Harry Stebbings You know, Daniel Eckert, Spotify, an incredible founder of our generation, would have been told on all social platforms, on all discussion levels, this doesn't work.
Snap's VP of Product Jack Brody: The Future of AR; Snap Glasses; Evan Spiegel's Product Mind | E1006 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:19 Harry Stebbings I have Gustav, the CPO at Spotify on the show, and he said, talk is cheap, so we should do more of it, um, which I thought was quite an interesting statement.
Scooter Braun on Being Enough, Insecurity, Wealth, Investing, Fame, Marriage and Much More | E1002 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:01 Scooter Braun I invested in Spotify a long time ago.
- ▶ 1:40:05 Scooter Braun And him and Shaq didn't let me invest in damn Spotify for another year. 3 times in the scene
Rob Lacher: How I Scaled to $600M AUM; Hiring Tips for VCs; Venture Capital in Europe vs USA | E999 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:32 Rob Lacher The ecosystem with this network strategy, and we feel it's on the one hand side, you know, if you look at pre-seed, see it where Europe is incredibly decentralized, so you need 10 partners speaking 10 different languages if you really want…
Jag Duggal: How We Scaled Nubank to 80M Users; Google's Brutal Hiring Practices | E995 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:32 Jag Duggal One of the first products I did in Silicon Valley when I joined Google was Google audio and, um, which is a failed product in the end, but what one of the privileges of that role back in, I think it was 2000, late 2006, early 2007 was I… 5 times in the scene
Glen Coates: Why Shopify Will Dominate Amazon; How Microsoft Made Smartest Move of 2023 | E986 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:15 Glen Coates Spotify or Lyft or something.
Meta CMO Alex Schultz: Competing Against TikTok & Snap; Why Reels Failed at First | E985 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:44 Harry Stebbings I, I think it was Mike Mignano, a partner at Lightspeed, who was at Spotify before.
Aloe Blacc: The Secret to Songwriting & Storytelling; Working w/ Avicii on “Wake Me Up” | 20VC #979 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:22 Aloe Blacc So, leaning, leaning to, leaning toward it, um, and it ended up becoming the most streamed song in Spotify history for that time, right?
Barry McCarthy: From Netflix CFO to Peloton CEO; How Netflix Beat Blockbuster | 20VC #962 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17 Barry McCarthy Uh, and an avid Peloton fan user, and, uh, and, uh, had, had many, um, years of successful association with TCV, both co-investors in Netflix and co-investors in Spotify, and, um, and read about some of the difficulties in the business and…
- ▶ 5:16 Harry Stebbings What was it that compelled you to join Spotify at the time? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:32 Harry Stebbings You mentioned Daniel and how he was so central to your decision to move to Spotify. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:50 Harry Stebbings Well, I mean, one of the reasons I'm sure is, is your innovation around direct listings and how you played such a pivotal role with Spotify in terms of the direct listing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:36 Barry McCarthy The decision-making process in a Swedish culture and at Spotify can at times to an American feel a little bit like watching them paint dry. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:14 Barry McCarthy This is something that, that Daniel has invested in aggressively at Spotify.
- ▶ 46:55 Barry McCarthy And I've have known him, you know, through Spotify, through, through a number of really terrific and Netflix and, and other, you know, really lucrative
Bob Pittman: How I Went from Creator of MTV to CEO of iHeartMedia | 20VC #958 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:24 Bob Pittman And, uh, you know, I mean, even questions about, I mean, Spotify, great product. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:16 Bob Pittman It's like people say, aren't you competing with Spotify? 4 times in the scene
Marty Cagan: Product Lessons from Steve Jobs and Elon Musk; Why do we idolize engineers? | 20VC #957 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:26 Marty Cagan I mean, I see some companies like Spotify has done fabulous and they are much more set the dial, you know, like we would in Silicon Valley for sure.
Miki Kuusi: How I Scaled Wolt to $8B; Why I Sold to DoorDash | 20VC #953 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:52 Miki Kuusi We're going to build the Spotify.
Hugo Barra: How I Built Hardware for Android, Xiaomi, and Oculus | 20VC #947 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:05 Harry Stebbings Speaking of kind of component to component and that granularity, Gustav, um, our mutual friend, obviously at Spotify, has said before, details are not details, they are the product.
Emil Michael: How I Negotiated the $4B Uber-China Deal, Why DoorDash Caught Up to Uber | 20VC #941 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17:00 Emil Michael I met him cause I was interviewing to be the COO of Spotify.
Spotify CTO Gustav Söderström: TikTok's Music; How Olivia Rodrigo Gamed the Algo | 20VC #936 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings And then come to lead the product org at, you know, one of the generational defining companies of our time was Spotify. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:37 Gustav Söderström I can't help but think as a CEO, even when I'm at Spotify, which can be annoying for maybe for the CEO, for my peers, because you think about everyone else's shit as well. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:17 Harry Stebbings What was it about Daniel and Spotify that convinced you that this was going to be, you know, what was now a 14 year journey that you were going to commit to? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:59 Gustav Söderström One is when I joined Spotify, we had what was then a very profitable business model, which was you give the application away for free on desktop computers because people didn't think they wanted to pay for music. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:47 Harry Stebbings Um, one of my favorite features in Spotify is the GoToRadio. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:40 Gustav Söderström That's a, that's a reasonable strategy if you're a much, much bigger player, but Spotify has always been, and still is a much smaller player than our competitors. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:45 Gustav Söderström That it took a long time before Spotify was sort of our, our internal goal was, you know, get the podcast catalog on the service and build a, uh, best in class podcast player, you know, feature parody.
- ▶ 41:39 Gustav Söderström Um, maybe because we were afraid of mistakes, but I actually think that grew into a skill at Spotify. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:23 Gustav Söderström And that means that it's quite different to work at Spotify than many other companies. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:55 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, um, leadership, we've mentioned like hierarchies there, um, often with scaling companies, um, bluntly leadership changes are very normal, and they happen, and they have happened at Spotify, as they do in every company. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:13 Gustav Söderström You know, I don't know that they actually believed that Spotify would work.
- ▶ 1:06:23 Harry Stebbings We're entirely Spotify's, entirely integrated, just in a hypothetical world.
- ▶ 1:10:09 Gustav Söderström So that's the reason that I keep working here. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:53 Gustav Söderström And that's how I want to think about Spotify as well. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23:52 Gustav Söderström And so I actually don't make a lot of the product decisions at Spotify. 4 times in the scene
Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison: What does Clubhouse do now to regain mindshare? | | 20VC #929 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:16 Paul Davison Like if I'm sure you've had the experience in the past where you're in the car and a song comes on the radio that you like, and you're like, oh my gosh, we've got to listen to this, but you wouldn't open up Spotify and listen to it in the…
Michael Mignano: How I Founded Anchor; Why TikTok could be a $2 TRILLION Company | 20VC #923 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05 Harry Stebbings But tell me, you know, you've had an amazing career so far with Anchor and with Spotify.
- ▶ 24:20 Mike Mignano Arguably, this is why Spotify has been so massively successful or YouTube, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:15 Harry Stebbings It's like, I think Spotify is one of the best product companies in the world. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:40 Mike Mignano You know, I think if Spotify were to have done this a couple of years ago, it maybe would have been the wrong bet. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:22 Harry Stebbings Do you know what I think is the most underrated feature in Spotify?
- ▶ 45:26 Harry Stebbings It's the go to radio.