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Söderström: Internal surveys show users regret 60% of time on rival platforms
“Without naming which ones on many of the big platforms, people, people regretted almost 60% of the time they spent or more.”
Söderström: Steve Jobs tried to kill Spotify many times
“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.”
Söderström: Apple internally gave Spotify six months to survive Beats acquisition
“That's what they literally said in their internal meetings. They gave us six months.”
Söderström: New Co-CEOs completely changed management style from Daniel Ek
“We actually changed completely how we run the company from the way Daniel runs it.”
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.”
Söderström: Gen Z users value nearly 90% of time spent on Spotify
“We were actually the lowest regret content sort of on the internet in terms of the platforms we asked for, or if you flip it around some of the time most well spent on the internet with, you know, Gen Z saying that they value almost almost 90% of the time they…”
Söderström: Almost 70% of Spotify users work out with the app
“Almost 70% of people on Spotify work out with Spotify.”
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…”
Söderström: Demand for agent-filtered 'premeditated media' will grow
“Premeditated media. Is something that, that I think everyone should at least have access to if they want to. It works for me and I think it will work for a lot of people. And I think it's, I think that need is not going to get less. I think it's going to get, …”
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…”
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.”
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…”
Söderström: Amazon bundled lifetime carrier data into Kindle hardware pricing
“And what they did was they signed deals with these carriers. They calculated the average book size, and they made a fixed cost deal where all the data sort of forever was included in the price of the hardware. You bought this thing for one time cost, and it ju…”