Spotify

“Or take a look at Spotify, over 90% of their revenue comes from subscriptions.”

“Well, I mean, I think the list is pretty long of, you know, Spotify and Skype, and I mean, there's, yeah, there's a whole bunch of success stories. I think what probably hasn't happened yet is you don't have the mafias that have followed those yet necessarily.”

“Take a market like Sweden, the reason why Spotify partly has been successful was, from day one, the product was built to go global. The same thing with Skype, transfer-wise, a building for a global audience, because The local population is far too small to be …”

“TransferWise is doing an amazing job, and I hope this goes down as, you know, one of the biggest companies ever to come out of Europe, up there with Spotify and Skype, or bigger than even those companies.”

“Ended up meeting Daniel Ek when he was 22 years old with an idea of Spotify, and I put half of my net worth into the company before there was a product.”

“Spotify, when they were initially designing their incredible program, Discover Weekly, they initially wanted it to be entirely new songs. But a bug in the algorithm accidentally let through some familiar songs as they were testing internally. So they fixed the…”

“Long term, we think about what is best for you to eat based on your genetics, your age, your background, your taste preferences, and we try to personalize food in the same way that Spotify has developed a fingerprint for music. We want to own that fingerprint …”

“I wouldn't encourage, you know, blockchain projects that want to go and compete with Spotify directly, but there's this new territory that's opened up to figure out new sort of modes of creative expression that benefit from these properties, and hopefully we'l…”

“You could have had a Spotify in 1999 or 2000 at the very least.”

“You see, actually, Spotify could use that data and help artists and concert promoters figure out which cities they should be touring in. They should use data to inform themselves. Should I spend one more night in New York, or should I use that day instead at t…”

“With their addition of podcasts, they now know much more about me. If I listen to the BiggerPockets podcast, they know I'm most likely a landlord and I love real estate.”

“And the goal of all of these platforms, like Instagram, TikTok, Spotify Apple Music, is to have users use their app as long as possible. And what they encourage the creators to do is give them a bunch of things that these users can consume. But because of that…”

“No one, none of the major apps would build in the, in For Vision Pro because they're, you know, the Spotify's of the world because they'd been so screwed over.”

“I think that's happened on the smartphone now. You know, particularly with Apple, I think the kind of the Epic case and the Spotify cases are really great examples of that where, you know, I am fielding, you know, a product that's competitive with Spotify and …”