The 2 Best Spotify: A Product Story Podcast Episodes
1) 01: How do you steal from a pirate?
This is the story behind Spotify’s first product -- the desktop app. We explore how the first iteration of Spotify came to be, and identify the four biggest lessons learned through the process - lesso...Show More
2) 05: When your winning bet becomes your losing bet
Everyone knows of the “innovator’s dilemma”, yet so many companies still run head first straight into it... Why is it so hard in practice? In this episode, specifically geared towards CEOs and CTOs, w...Show More
3) 10: In pursuit of the perfect session - a DJ just for you
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 experi...Show More
4) Explained: The conspiracy to make AI seem harder than it is! by Gustav Söderström
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? Ho...Show More
Explained: The conspiracy to make AI seem harder than it is! by Gustav Söderström
1:30:41 | Jul 31st, 2023
5) 09: Building the future of audio
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, wh...Show More
6) 08: When to build vs buy - and when to open source
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 ...Show More
7) 07: Spotify’s podcast bet
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. Th...Show More
8) 06: Hardware is hard
In this episode you’ll learn about Spotify’s journey into the painful complicated world of hardware. You’ll hear how we worked our way down to the very bottom of the stack in our quest to create the “...Show More
9) 04: Human vs Machine
Will AI truly replace us humans when it comes to music? Listen to machine learning (ML) legend Andrew Ng and Spotify insiders on what it really means to develop products in an AI/ML first world, how w...Show More
10) 03: This party is going to end
This episode tells the story of how Spotify went into negative growth and nearly didn’t survive to it’s 5th birthday as the world around us suddenly changed…. You’ll learn how we had to reinvent our e...Show More