Spotify, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Spotify comes up
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 21:38 David Rosenthal I mean, it's basically Spotify today.
- ▶ 1:24:20 David Rosenthal I mean, amazingly, a couple years later, you know, Sean, being so open-minded, I mean, he was the, one of the ones who really helped Spotify get going.
- ▶ 1:24:28 Ben Gilbert And really brokered the relationship with Mark, for Daniel and Mark to hit it off, and obviously Spotify to have a huge amount of growth on Facebook.
- ▶ 1:31:03 David Rosenthal Which Peter, partially on the back of this Facebook investment, has now set up and raised officially, and like we said, Sean goes on to find and fund and really help nurture Spotify through his role at Founders Fund.
Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg) · Acquired
- ▶ 10:23 Ben Gilbert We are here to welcome, all the way from Stockholm, the CEO and founder of Spotify, Daniel Ek.
- ▶ 12:40 Daniel Ek Yeah, I mean, it, it's pretty remarkable, and on Spotify alone, you guys have now done over five million hours, and it tripled in the last year.
- ▶ 14:06 Daniel Ek Um, added more than 250,000 followers, and that tripled last year too, so it's over 250,000 followers on Spotify alone, now on The Quiet Show, which again, is pretty remarkable to see that kind of growth.
- ▶ 14:31 Ben Gilbert One is we've had, like, ridiculous subscriber growth on Spotify.
- ▶ 16:04 Daniel Ek And by way of context, just to put, put it, put this in perspective, in 2019, um, you know, when we got into podcasts, uh, the world around podcast listening and Spotify, there was a few million people, uh, listening to this.
- ▶ 16:23 Daniel Ek And today there's over a hundred and fifty million people listening to podcast on Spotify.
- ▶ 18:10 Daniel Ek So, one of the things you obviously have done is, um, you know, added video to the format, and, uh, this is my plug of hopefully getting you guys to finally add video to Spotify as well, but, um, what do you think is next for the show, uh,…
- ▶ 18:50 Ben Gilbert Like, you, you have massively expanded what Spotify does since the original vision, uh,
- ▶ 21:23 Daniel Ek So you talked about video and, and, you know, on Spotify, it's been a huge growth thing.
- ▶ 23:01 David Rosenthal Um, Spotify started on Facebook.
- ▶ 23:27 Ben Gilbert Do you remember in the early days of Spotify when you figured out, oh, Facebook is gonna be this unbelievable channel for us?
- ▶ 24:20 Daniel Ek I said, in the beginning, it started like he wanted mostly Spotify to be more social.
- ▶ 24:28 Ben Gilbert Cause Spotify was not like Spotify the way what it is today.
- ▶ 25:08 Daniel Ek Uh, so this sort of secret of Spotify was, uh, we sort of seeded one account at a time to get a bunch of influencers to kind of like it.
- ▶ 25:26 David Rosenthal The currency of the, the Spotify invites.
- ▶ 25:31 Daniel Ek For quite a few years before we launched, where it was kind of the secret thing if you were in the club or if you weren't, um, and, um, anyway, he got Mark on it, and I think Mark kind of wrote this, um, status update, like Spotify is so…
- ▶ 26:13 Daniel Ek And we kind of got to work together, built that product, uh, and coincided it with the Spotify US launch.
- ▶ 26:24 Ben Gilbert You'd be scrolling through your news feed, and it would be giving you these status updates of what your friends were listening to piped in directly from Spotify.
- ▶ 26:32 Daniel Ek It, it actually still exists in Spotify product, um, on desktop, so you can kind of see what your friends are listening to real time.
- ▶ 27:05 Ben Gilbert Um, and yet, everyone here who's a Spotify customer today, when I think Spotify, I think, oh, that's like the easy way to access music podcasts and now audiobooks, but I don't think like, oh, it's a social listening.
- ▶ 29:32 David Rosenthal What do you, what have you taken from him that you've brought into Spotify and how you run the company?
- ▶ 31:42 David Rosenthal And there is a reason why he has built Spotify.
- ▶ 32:30 Ben Gilbert Yeah, you see, I mean, if I were to characterize, like, why Spotify worked, it feels like there's an incredible amount of tenacity and a willingness to run at a problem that, like, a lot of people had tried and failed at before, but there…
- ▶ 33:14 Daniel Ek So the internal saying that Spotify is talk is cheap.
- ▶ 33:47 Daniel Ek And we have our sort of ways of doing that now that we've sort of codified across the company, which I think is pretty unique at this point.
- ▶ 38:05 Daniel Ek Um, surely thereafter we started showing up as the biggest book distributor in the country, but we weren't even trying, and it was actually a pretty horrible experience to listen to books on Spotify.
- ▶ 59:15 David Rosenthal So the big piece that I actually think is the most interesting piece that we got wrong in our episode, Ben did a fantastic primer on the music industry, uh, and, you know, all the challenges for artists and et cetera, et cetera, and like…
- ▶ 59:56 David Rosenthal Um, well over a hundred million dollars from Spotify streaming alone.
- ▶ 1:13:22 Ben Gilbert Jensen from NVIDIA, Daniel from Spotify, and next we have the iconic founder CEO of our time, Mark Zuckerberg.
- ▶ 2:22:51 Ben Gilbert Thank you to Mark and the entire meta executive team that we got to talk to to prep for this, Daniel and the Spotify team, uh, Emily and Lauren from Bloomberg and the Circuit, Jensen, Mylene, uh, Janine, everyone from the whole NVIDIA…
Chase Center + Summer Update (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:31 Ben Gilbert And what happened is when that article came out, Acquired became the number one podcast on both Spotify and Apple charts in the world.
- ▶ 5:29 Ben Gilbert 317,000 new subscribers or followers, depending on whether you're using Apple or Spotify's parlance, have followed the show since the Wall Street Journal piece went live.
Starbucks (with Howard Schultz) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:14:49 Ben Gilbert So check out ACQ two, lots more interviews there, and I know the backlog, and it's only getting better from here, and you can imagine that having a great piece in the Wall Street Journal and hitting number one on Apple and Spotify, which…
Novo Nordisk (Ozempic) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:38:16 Ben Gilbert To our Danish friends and our Swedish friends at Spotify, I highly recommend this product.