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Lex Fridman PodcastGustav Soderstrom: Spotify | Lex Fridman Podcast #29
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Episode Details
EPISODE INFO
- Released
- July 29, 2019
- Duration
- 1h 47m
- Channel
- Lex Fridman Podcast
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Gustav Soderstrom is the Chief Research & Development Officer at Spotify, leading Product, Design, Data, Technology & Engineering teams. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep29-sb See below for timestamps, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc. *CONTACT LEX:* *Feedback* - give feedback to Lex: https://lexfridman.com/survey *AMA* - submit questions, videos or call-in: https://lexfridman.com/ama *Hiring* - join our team: https://lexfridman.com/hiring *Other* - other ways to get in touch: https://lexfridman.com/contact *OUTLINE:* 0:00 - Introduction 1:06 - Favorite song & True Romance 3:04 - Purpose of music in society 7:02 - History of music 16:28 - Piracy and the internet, competing with free 20:54 - Innovation in music streaming user experience 23:36 - Video content, YouTube, and the focus on audio 25:56 - Growing a user base 28:14 - Letting go of music hoarding 31:18 - Playlists and machine learning 38:19 - Song data analysis 41:05 - Tools for empowering the music creation process 53:14 - Albums and podcasting 1:00:13 - Recommender systems & machine learning 1:19:28 - Smart speakers 1:26:54 - Music labels 1:36:10 - Future of music streaming 1:41:17 - Future of mobile devices 1:44:25 - Her *PODCAST LINKS:*
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SPEAKERS
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guest
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Lex Fridman and Gustav Soderstrom, Gustav Soderstrom: Spotify | Lex Fridman Podcast #29 explores Spotify’s Gustav Soderström on Music, AI, Creation, and the Future Gustav Soderström, Spotify’s Chief R&D Officer, discusses how Spotify evolved from fighting piracy in Sweden to reshaping how the world discovers and listens to music and podcasts.
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