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Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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.
Spotify CTO Gustav Söderström: TikTok's Music; How Olivia Rodrigo Gamed the Algo | 20VC #936 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 1:03:13 Gustav Söderström You know, I don't know that they actually believed that Spotify would work.
- ▶ 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