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Hommels: Spotify had no music rights when he evaluated investing
“So you could say when the time I was looking at Spotify, it was, I'm not sure, I wouldn't say it's illegal, but we had music and we didn't have the rights.”
Ian Lee: NFT-Powered Spotify and YouTube Alternatives Will Emerge by 2024
“So good example of this is that I think that like NFT powered commerce in Web three, NFT powered digital media and various kind of social media platforms. That I knew or believed were gonna happen in 10 years or so, I think are now possible in the next two to …”
Söderström: Spotify will not build general frontier AI models to compete
“So that's why, you know, there's no point in trying to compete with them for us because we don't even have the same goal. So we're trying to build exactly the things that we don't think they will build. And we would buy the things that they will build or someo…”
Dash: Dubsmash dance challenges directly drove rap song virality on Spotify
“We started to see rap songs starting to become actually viral on, on Spotify as a result of this.”
Söderström: Spotify drastically rebuilt its app to prioritize machine learning recommendations
“So we actually made a bet on the shift from curation to recommendation or social media to recommendation media. Four or five years ago and rebuilt the application quite drastically. And today we, I would say we are a recommendations based company much more tha…”
Söderström: Artists are shifting choruses earlier to grab streaming listeners
“Because people now have shorter attention spans. You can see the chorus moving closer and closer to the beginning of the song, right? Everyone is trying to optimize for the first few seconds”
Shulman: YouTube is More Engaging Than Spotify Based on Ad ARPU
“Like YouTube is more engaging than Spotify as measured by the amount of, you know, the ARPU for ads, for example, right?”
Aloe Blacc: Wake Me Up became Spotify's most streamed track
“And it ended up becoming the most streamed song in Spotify history for that time, right?”
De Rycker: Accel backed Spotify at $70M revenue and 1.5M subscribers
“When we invested, it was sort of seventy-ish million in gross revenue. I mean, it's ten billion now. And It was about a million and a half paying users”
Sweden had 25% Spotify penetration when G Squared invested in 2014
“At that time, the penetration of the usership in, in, in Sweden was like, 25% of the population used it. I mean, that's amazing. 25% of the population used the product.”
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.”