Spotify: A Product Story

Spotify: A Product Story

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A miniseries about product strategy, offering on a weekly basis, a glimpse into the decisions that have guided Spotify’s product evolution. Hosted by Gustav Söderström, Spotify's Chief R&D Officer, each episode tells the story of a pivotal product development or business decision through candid conversations with a diverse cast of voices from across the industry.

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10: In pursuit of the perfect session - a DJ just for you

Feb 21, 202455 min

We’re back! And today we dig into Spotify’s AI DJ. Since its inception, radio provided a music format that was convenient and simple, but far from personal. Spotify’s solution? AI DJ, a bespoke experience that provides listeners with the content they want through generative AI technology. After year

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Explained: The conspiracy to make AI seem harder than it is! by Gustav Söderström

Jul 31, 20231h 30m

2023 may be a year that people still speak about 100 years from now, the year computers passed the Turing test! You know what these things can do , but do you actually understand how they can do it? How is it that we have services like Chat GPT that can write entire novels, and services like Stable

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09: Building the future of audio

May 5, 202137 min

What’s Spotify up to next? Tune in to the season finale to hear about Spotify’s plans for the future of audio and the brand new formats that we’re launching today and in the near future. As always, when building something new, we don’t know how it’s all going to play out yet, or exactly what the pro

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08: When to build vs buy - and when to open source

Apr 28, 202134 min

This is the story of Backstage -- a “platform of platforms”, built by Spotify and open to anyone as open source software. Tune in to hear insights about when to build vs buy - and when to open source - or not! Interviews with Jeremiah Lowin, CEO of Prefect.io , a company that runs on what is called

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07: Spotify’s podcast bet

Apr 21, 202146 min

How do you go “from zero to one”? In this episode, you’ll learn how Spotify managed to enter a market late: a market that was already dominated by a single player - our biggest competitor in music. This is the story of how we entered podcasts. Daniel Ek, Dawn Ostroff, and Sten Garmark shed light on