why aren't all 7 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Assertion Partly supported
Iovine: Spotify is worth $150B, double the entire record industry combined
“Of course, Spotify is worth a hundred and fifty billion, and the entire record industry is worth half that together.”
Assertion Partly supported
Söderström: Almost 70% of Spotify users work out with the app
“Almost 70% of people on Spotify work out with Spotify.”
Assertion Contradicted
Söderström: Apple Podcasts held 98.5% market share before Spotify's entry
“And when we looked at their usage, I think Apple podcast was still like 98 and a half percent.”
Assertion Supported
Spotify launches 'Save to Spotify' for private AI-generated podcasts
“So this is something I'm working on at Spotify, and we released this just a few weeks ago, something called Save to Spotify. When you sit in your code code or codex or something, you can just, you know, you can ask these agents to go out and look at informatio…”
Assertion Supported
Söderström: Almost 90% of Spotify revenue comes from subscriptions
“Most of our revenue is from subscribers paying for their experience, you know, like almost 90% of the revenue.”
Assertion Partly supported
Söderström: In 2009 Spotify ran ML on world's largest Hadoop cluster
“When I came to Spotify, We already had one of these large data sets of music playlists, and so there were some very talented people there, specifically a guy named Erik Bernadsson, who at the time, this is 2009, was doing machine learning something called coll…”
Assertion Supported
Söderström: Daniel Ek prepared Co-CEOs for three years before succession
“So already about three years ago, He asked me and Alex Nordstrom to step up and become co-presidents and sort of start to run the day to day of Spotify for him. He was still the CEO. And so he's been gradually like giving us more and more rope to run the busin…”