Spotify, every mention
41 scenes (2022), the whole family · ← back to Spotify
tap a year for its mentions
every year 2022 anyone Harry Stebbings 240Gustav Söderström 37Mike Mignano 27Larry Aschebrook 14Sonali De Rycker 8Mayur Gupta 8Gary Liu 8Daniel Ek 6Carl Waldekranz 6Bob Pittman 6
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Spotify comes up
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.
- ▶ 55:23 Mike Mignano I worked at Spotify for many years.
- ▶ 1:00:06 Mike Mignano She now runs talk at Spotify.
Sonali De Rycker | How I Became a Partner at Accel; Type 1 vs. Type 2 Mistakes | 20VC #902 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:12 Sonali De Rycker I mean, you know, we invested in Spotify in the end of, uh, early, early 11 is when we were talking. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:29 Sonali De Rycker And I think Spotify is a great example where we invested. 6 times in the scene
Ian Lee: Why DAOs Will Replace Venture Capital; Biggest Threat to Web3 | 20VC #893 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC: Opensea Founder, Devin Finzer on Scaling GMV from $150M to $3BN in 18 Months, How Brands and Celebrities Will Harness NFTs To Change Their Business, The Impact of NFTs on Gaming & What is in Devin's Metamask Wallet?!
- ▶ 24:47 Devin Finzer Maybe we're making a very small amount using Spotify and like sort of the pay to stream model, but now we're able to actually really effectively monetize as a creator or musician using NFT.