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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?