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Record labels only granted Spotify's free mobile tier after growth stalled
“We had to wait all until, all up until we had stopped growing and actually started losing users before they agreed to give us the licenses we wanted.”
Gustav Söderström Oct 13, 2022 ▶ 10:43 Spotify CTO Gustav Söderström: TikTok's Music; How Olivia Rodrigo Gamed the Algo | 20VC #936 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Spotify took over a year to achieve feature parity in podcasting
“But to your point, that took over a year before we had everything in place that people even expected from a podcast player. It was painful to spend that time, but it wasn't the problem of actually, you know, losing altitude in the meantime.”
Gustav Söderström Oct 13, 2022 ▶ 34:00 Spotify CTO Gustav Söderström: TikTok's Music; How Olivia Rodrigo Gamed the Algo | 20VC #936 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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