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Building Defense Technologies to Protect Democracies | Torsten Reil, Helsing
- ▶ 20:19 Torsten Reil We honestly looked at, you know, Spotify as a, as a, as a beacon, as a, as an example of, you know, a large company you can build that is, that has, you know, a global ambitions, but then also actually global impact. 2 times in the scene
Founder of CAA Michael Ovitz: "I Just Knew I Was Going to Outwork Every One of Them"
- ▶ 53:33 Michael Ovitz I think the, um, advent of Daniel X Spotify, which he developed in a garage in Sweden, in Stockholm, is a game changer, and I think
DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Control
- ▶ 1:06:05 David Senra I'm really tight with the Spotify team, right?
The $44 Billion Company Automating Your Company's Finances
- ▶ 19:53 David Senra Uh, I just had a conversation with Gustaf, who's the co-CEO of Spotify. 3 times in the scene
Why Asking the Right Questions Is the Most Important Skill in the AI Age
- ▶ 4:53 David Senra I just spent time and recorded an episode with Gustaf, who's the, uh, co-CEO of Spotify right now. 3 times in the scene
The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu
- ▶ 53:21 Scott Wu I love the quote from, from Daniel Ek in Spotify, right?
- ▶ 54:49 David Senra I love that you use the example of the war between Spotify and the rest of the Apple Music, for example. 4 times in the scene
The Marketing Genius of Steve Stoute
- ▶ 35:48 Steve Stoute When the record companies cut the deal with Spotify and this whole seventy-thirty split, they had all the leverage in the world. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:34 Steve Stoute And then he turned down Spotify and went to Patreon.
The Company Apple Couldn't Kill | Spotify Co-CEO Gustav Söderström
- ▶ 0:29 Gustav Söderström He asked me and Alex Nordstrom to step up and become co-presidents and sort of start to run the, the day to day of Spotify for him. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:15 Gustav Söderström Because if you think about what Spotify is, yes, it's a, it's a technology company doing sort of hardcore technology innovation, but it's also a media company working in an industry with a bunch of, of, uh, you know, first music labels 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:38 Gustav Söderström And as I said, as I joined Spotify and had to like, when I was at Yahoo, I said, I never want to work in a big org. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:00 David Senra But this is what I think you guys are special in the technology industry, and why I like spending time, and, and Spotify's, you know, what, out of the, whatever your favorite AI chatbot, like, chat app, it's like, what's the best apps on… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:23 Gustav Söderström We just, uh, announced some partnerships with, with a bunch of companies and, uh, we're investing in, in more, you know, three quarters of, of, uh, almost 70% of people on Spotify work out with Spotify. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:38 Gustav Söderström And, and I think it's gonna be the right bet for Spotify. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:33 David Senra Uh, so the fourth most listened to on my Spotify rap for podcasts was, uh, Spotify product story, which you narrate. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:33 David Senra Uh, so the fourth most listened to on my Spotify rap for podcasts was, uh, Spotify product story, which you narrate.
- ▶ 47:31 David Senra You had, you had to have this like favorable occurrence of events that now leads you to have, I think you guys are the second largest subscriber base in the world behind Netflix, am I, am I correct?
- ▶ 50:54 Gustav Söderström This is the Spotify story of access versus, versus ownership, for example, which is, by the way, why I would also love Steve Jobs to be around, but also not because, you know, he tried to kill us many times.
- ▶ 51:37 David Senra These were small guys in a tiny, there's like five million people in Sweden and stuff like that, and they had, if Spotify, like, there was, they only had one thing, they had, I always love this idea, it was like, if you had to pick… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:07 David Senra Everybody's going to know what Spotify is. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:29 David Senra Like, what are you guys doing literally at Spotify? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:16 David Senra Like, what do you think the weakest spot for Spotify is right now? 4 times in the scene
The Man Behind Grand Theft Auto 6: Strauss Zelnick
- ▶ 1:31:13 David Senra One size doesn't fit all that Daniel Ek, the founder of Spotify and I are working on this project to try to outline all the different founder archetypes.
Evan Spiegel, Snapchat: Building a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 1:19:47 David Senra I spend a lot of time with the Spotify team, Daniel, Gustaf, Alex, the top three, three, three people there, and they just have this like soul in the game, and they're really trying to build an app. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:48:08 David Senra The first one was a Daniel Ek of Spotify. 2 times in the scene
Brian Armstrong: When Washington Tried to Kill Coinbase
- ▶ 59:24 David Senra Well, I'm curious, like, have you found any other, um, I talked to my friend Kareem, founder of Ramp about this, Daniel, founder of Spotify.
Jimmy Iovine: Building Interscope Records & Beats by Dre
- ▶ 2:10 David Senra And you pulled up this insane video from you from 2004, which is four or five years before Spotify was founded, and you essentially were talking about what you saw as the technological shift happening in the music industry.
- ▶ 36:47 David Senra Ok, hold on, I want to pause here, because I text Daniel Ek, right, founder of Spotify, and I was like, tell me, like, give me some ideas, because he's known you forever.
- ▶ 50:47 Jimmy Iovine Yeah, Spotify had three million subscribers at the time, at the time we sold to Apple. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:36 Jimmy Iovine What you don't want to do is license the next AI Spotify and say, give me three percent of your company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:56 Jimmy Iovine I, I felt great, but I didn't like, I'm like, oh shit, these guys gave, gave us all this money, and now we gotta make a streaming service work, and Spotify's got the lead, and I'm like,
Tobi Lütke: 21 Years of Building Shopify
- ▶ 50:44 David Senra So it's internal only for Spotify. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:28 David Senra One of the things that Daniel from, from Spotify, I almost said Shopify, now for him, David from Spotify told him, he's like, you should ask him, like, what were some of the advantages of starting with Silicon Valley? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:42:11 David Senra Uh, Daniel from Spotify and Kareem from ramp.
John Mackey: The Dropout Who Changed How America Eats
- ▶ 1:20:56 David Senra That's like, well, I remember, um, one of the first times I talked to him, Spotify's obviously incredible, and I was like, but he's doing incredible, like, investing in business incubation, and I know that team very well.