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Introduction
Patrick
My guest today is Gustav Söderström. Gustav is the Co-President, Chief Product Officer and Chief Technology Officer at Spotify. Gustav lets us behind the scenes on how Spotify thinks about the future of audio and video, and what leadership lessons he's learned from making mistakes and taking risks in a rapidly changing technology landscape. He shares fascinating insights on their synchronized team structure, and how they position themselves as the R&D department for the entire music industry. We discuss their integration of AI, their unique bets board process for allocating resources, and how they've evolved from a music service into a multimedia platform with over 650 million users. Please enjoy my great conversation with Gustav Söderström.
Riding the AI Revolution
Patrick
Maybe a fun place to begin is the obvious place. Everyone is facing this giant shift in technology. My friend Ravi Gupta calls this imperative "AI or Die". That companies, even the big sexy established technology companies, need to find ways to embrace and use this new technology as it unfolds, or face elimination. I would love to hear how you and Spotify are thinking about this challenge. I know you've embraced it very quickly, and you were very early to using machine learning and data science all over the product.