Spotify
4 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jan 17, 2018 by Alex Blumberg · said 25 times in 14 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Mike Mignano (5), Chris Best (3), Garry Tan (2), Brian Halligan (2), Alex Blumberg (2), Wade Foster (1), Ooshma Garg (1), Lillian Chou (1)
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 8 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
2019 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- Monetizing Podcasts and Newsletters - Chris Best of Substack and Jonathan Gill of Backtracks · Y Combinator
- HubSpot CEO and Cofounder Brian Halligan with Wufoo Cofounder Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- Jay Reno of Feather, a Furniture Subscription Startup · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
- Alex Blumberg of Gimlet Media · Y Combinator
- Frank Lantz - Director of NYU's Game Center and Creator of Universal Paperclips · Y Combinator
- A Conversation with Ooshma Garg - Moderated by Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
- Leah Culver of Breaker and Tom Sparks of YC Answer Your Questions About Security and Podcasting · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
Everything said about Spotify, oldest first
Jan 17, 2018 negative
Blumberg: Gimlet is unlikely to build its own podcast platform
“It seems less likely that if we were ever going to build like our own platform, that seems less and less likely. Like just because, you know, the Spotify's and the tune-ins and the Apple's are definitely like for a while, like they weren't really paying attent…”
Sep 8, 2018 bullish
Garg: The company cracking food personalization will win the sector long-term
“I still today think that the power of personalization, what Amazon brings to e-commerce and what Netflix and Spotify bring to movies and music. That level of personalization has not taken off in food. And just like Google with search, the company that cracks i…”
Oct 10, 2018 positive
French-Owen: Segment allows individual engineering teams to self-organize without mandated processes
“For us we don't have any set process that teams have to follow at segment kind of individual engineering teams, sort of like what Spotify does are able to self-organize. They're able to run however they want. If they want to do sprints, that's cool. If they wa…”
Aug 14, 2019 positive
Reno: Most users choose subscription services to avoid being tied down by ownership
“The reality is most people are using Feather and companies like us whether it's, you know, Rent the Runway or Uber or Lyft or Spotify, et cetera, because they don't necessarily want to own things and have things tying them to a physical space.”