Spotify

“Not the sort of advanced customer of ours, you know, say, you know, Airbnb or Twitter or, Spotify, but the vast majority of the industry is, is still kind of struggling with that.”

“Weather does affect how people listen. We had a partnership with AccuWeather, I think it was last year, and we did some analysis just in Chicago to understand, so when the weather changes, right, do people change what they listen to, and the answer is yes.”

“Regardless of how old you are, at least on Spotify, people keep going back to the music that they came out during their high school, during their teenage years”

“We have Internal discussions about, like, what happens when machines take over, but I would say our view is that that's probably still years away.”

“At Spotify alone, we now have a hundred and a hundred and fifty million active monthly users streaming from more than 60 countries.”

“We actually had some sort of collaborations with academic institutions, and, you know, we can actually pretty accurately predict people's personality just based on the data, right?”

“The interesting thing about music is that we're actually not competing as much as you think, and that's because music is complimentary.”

“And I would say for the next 10 years, we want to focus more on the creators, right?”

“Discover Weekly, for example, everyone's Discover Weekly is different, right? So, there's no way that we can really have, sort of, editorial, ah, intervention. So, everything is purely based on what you've been listening to”

“So we saw a significant increase in cross-device usage, which is what you always want. We saw a much higher engagement rate, and we were able to dramatically reduce the email opt-out rates as well, because the messaging was really relevant.”

“As we start to capture different types of user behavior, we are able to start mapping out critical moments of your life.”

“We are taking this very powerful analytical database that's used by companies like Spotify and Netflix and Disney and Uber and eBay and Cloudflare, and we're building a managed service in the cloud that we're calling ClickHouse Cloud.”

“No one told me who my manager was for the last year, for the first year of Spotify.”

“Spotify last year sent something like 12 billion dollars Out to music creators. That's more than the entire music industry's market cap was. 22 years ago, which is extraordinary.”