Gustav Söderström

Co-CEO, Spotify · 0 appearances on the record.

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Gustav Söderström co-leads Spotify as Co-CEO, having spent over a decade guiding its global product, technology, design, and AI strategy. Before Spotify, he founded Kenet Works and co-founded augmented reality startup 13th Lab.

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Insight
Söderström: Higher-quality free products increase user engagement and paid conversions
“We give you a free product, and the better that free product is, the more you use it, the more you're going to convert.”
Gustav Söderström Mar 22, 2023 ▶ 26:38 Spotify's Daniel Ek on how to build trust fast
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Söderström: Frustrating free-tier users drives them away rather than converting them
“They're saying, like, what if we frustrate the free users as much as possible? Surely we're going to push them over. What happens is they push them out.”
Gustav Söderström Mar 22, 2023 ▶ 27:26 Spotify's Daniel Ek on how to build trust fast
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Söderström: Piracy Catalog Remains Larger Than Any Streaming Service
“And to this day, the piracy catalog wasn't as bigger Than any streaming music service have.”
Gustav Söderström Mar 22, 2023 ▶ 22:59 Spotify's Daniel Ek on how to build trust fast

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