Gustav Soderstrom is the Chief Research & Development Officer at Spotify, leading Product, Design, Data, Technology & Engineering teams.

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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