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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Spotify comes up
Advice Line with Chris Riccobono of UNTUCKit
- ▶ 23:56 Chris Riccobono Radio reads targeting on Sirius or Spotify or where you hit a massive amount of people, and you can really target your, your demographic, and you can get a nice 32nd read that tells the whole story. 3 times in the scene
Advice Line with Julia Hartz of Eventbrite
Dollar Shave Club: Michael Dubin, From Zero to a Billion Dollar Exit in Five Years (December 2018)
Advice Line with Troy Carter of Atom Factory
Substack: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie
- ▶ 6:35 Chris Best It was, yeah, it was basically Spotify. 2 times in the scene
Skype and Kazaa: Niklas Zennström
- ▶ 1:30 Guy Raz In those years, before Spotify and Amazon and Apple Music, if you wanted to listen to a specific song, you had to buy the whole CD at a record store.
- ▶ 7:38 Guy Raz Spotify, yeah. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:34 Guy Raz Which, which essentially is the first version of what Spotify would become. 6 times in the scene
Advice Line with Jim Koch of Boston Beer Company
Sonos: John MacFarlane
- ▶ 32:50 Guy Raz It was before Pandora, before Spotify, before iTunes.
- ▶ 39:52 John MacFarlane So while Spotify was available in Sweden, uh, it wasn't available anywhere else.
Sharing the 2023 HIBT Lab Highlight Reel
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn (2020)
Wondery: Hernan Lopez
When your headphones listen to you with Ramses Alcaide of Neurable
- ▶ 23:55 Ramses Alcaide But, you know, at first we're going to introduce a system for very simple forms of control, just launching Spotify, play, pause, next track.
Manduka: Peter Sterios
Orangetheory Fitness: Ellen Latham
HIBT Lab! Nas Company: Nuseir Yassin
Twilio: Jeff Lawson
Michael Kors: Michael Kors
The Ringer: Bill Simmons
- ▶ 2:33 Guy Raz In 2020, just four years after he launched The Ringer, Bill sold it to Spotify for roughly two hundred and fifty million dollars.
- ▶ 1:11:09 Guy Raz And 20 20, right before the pandemic, it was, it was announced that you sold to Spotify. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:27 Guy Raz Bill, how long are you committed to being part of Spotify, to being part of the ringer? 5 times in the scene
I.R.S. Records: Miles Copeland
- ▶ 1:19 Guy Raz Every single day, somewhere between 20 and 60,000 songs get uploaded to Spotify. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:11 Miles Copeland But Spotify now, because there's billions of people who have signed on to it, that zero, zero, zero, one cent times X billion actually is real money.
ButcherBox: Mike Salguero
Noom: Saeju Jeong
Discord: Jason Citron
Merge Records: Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan
How I Built Resilience: Ethan Diamond of Bandcamp
- ▶ 7:14 Guy Raz And it's actually quite amazing because if you think about, and we'll talk about Spotify in a moment, but if you think about Spotify, Spotify is valued at, I don't know, like fifty billion dollars or something like that. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:35 Guy Raz This was just like in the sort of post Napster era, and it was sort of pre Spotify. 2 times in the scene
Patreon: Jack Conte and Sam Yam
How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Zimmer of United Talent Agency
- ▶ 17:14 Jeremy Zimmer And, uh, what's interesting, I mean, I think Spotify broke its streaming record maybe yesterday or the day before.
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn
Live From The HIBT Summit: Troy Carter
Gimlet Media: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber
- ▶ 3:47 Guy Raz And then, in 2019, Matt and Alex sold the company they founded to Spotify for around two hundred million dollars, which I think is fair to say is not a sum of money you often hear connected to public radio folks, unless they are major…
- ▶ 50:30 Alex Blumberg Eventually sold the company to Spotify.
- ▶ 1:05:56 Guy Raz And of course, you guys were, uh, approached or you began conversations with Spotify to acquire Gimlet. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:27 Guy Raz Also, some great fly-on-the-wall moments from the Spotify acquisition, and a kind of surreal scene where Alex and Nazanin are having yet another sleepless night,