Gustav Soderstrom: Spotify | Lex Fridman Podcast #29

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:* - Podcast Website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast - Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr - Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 - RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ - Podcast Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 - Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/lexclips *SOCIAL LINKS:* - X: https://x.com/lexfridman - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lexfridman - TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lexfridman - Patreon: https://patreon.com/lexfridman - Telegram: https://t.me/lexfridman - Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/lexfridman