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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Spotify comes up
The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses? | David Frankel
- ▶ 1:22:56 David Frankel Are going, this is a Spotify disruptor. 3 times in the scene
Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings He's a former founder, having sold his business anchored to Spotify many years ago.
- ▶ 35:48 Mike Mignano I mean, just take Spotify, which we talked about at the beginning, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:50 Mike Mignano Similar to what we saw play out on, on, uh, Spotify as an example.
- ▶ 1:00:55 Mike Mignano And I would say by the time I left Spotify in 20, 22, 4 times in the scene
Coinbase Cuts AI Spend by 50% | Kalshi's $40B Valuation & Impending IPO | The Year for SaaS Roll-Ups · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:03 Jason Lemkin I know the Spotify guy that Harry's close with, uh, runs the scanning company to that.
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:33:20 Harry Stebbings We actually have a very strong product perspective on YouTube versus Spotify. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:42:32 Cliff Weitzman Then Spotify and almost every other audio company put together every single year for the last seven years.
Demis Hassabis: Why AGI is Bigger than the Industrial Revolution & Where Are The Bottlenecks in AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:51 Demis Hassabis I mean, Daniel might well get there with one of his companies, you know, Spotify, Helsing.
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:04 Harry Stebbings Spotify didn't have great margins for a very long time, and their margin increase has been amazing, actually.
- ▶ 9:08 Gokul Rajaram I think Spotify is a good example. 2 times in the scene
Elena Verna: How Lovable Launches Product & Hacks Social to Go Viral · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 38:41 Elena Verna Uh, so I would go after Amazon prime videos, Spotify is, um, and all of those of the world, because there's just like not a lot of competition.
Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | OpenAI's $110BN Mega Round | Cursor Hits $2BN in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:17 Harry Stebbings I think Gustav at Spotify is too.
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:52 Sebastian Siemiatkowski And, and, and Adyen had just signed with Daniel X, Spotify, my neighbor.
- ▶ 43:37 Sebastian Siemiatkowski At this point of time, you know, Daniel Ekker, Spotify is getting all the tech credibility. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:23 Harry Stebbings You mentioned starting with Spotify and Klarna in Stockholm together, and obviously Stockholm's been the birthplace of great AI companies in the last year with Lagora and Lovable to name a few.
- ▶ 59:15 Sebastian Siemiatkowski I even published it on Spotify for the fun of it.
a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:59 Anish Acharya Like you look at Spotify, great European company, the very best Spotify SKU with the highest bit rate music, totally lossless, all the pods, all the videos, family plan, everything was 20, 25 dollars a month.
Legora CEO, Max Junestrand: $7M ARR in a Day | Harvey vs Legora: Is a Legal AI Winner Takes All? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:05:07 Max Junestrand Uh, from Spotify.
20VC: Raising $400M for 20VC: Fundraising Lessons | Getting Marc Benioff Through 53 Cold Emails: How to Master Cold Outbound | 7 Lessons from 101 Decacorn Founders with Harry Stebbings (Simon Squibb Edition)
- ▶ 35:40 Harry Stebbings You know, my, my dear friend is the CEO of Spotify, Gustav Soderstrom, and he says, the details are not the details.