This was actually really good. Great product insights and some of the origin / growth story of Spotify from . They didn’t go super deep on podcast prod/strategy tho. is definitely getting much better at interviewing
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I’ve never thought of Spotify as being good at product but Gustav does a good job of talking ab specific problems, challenges, and decisions that showed otherwise
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However I still think Spotify’s podcast strategy is very flawed for many different reasons (no standalone experience, no way to solve discovery, no social graph, exclusive rights = Spotify becoming the music labels they so hated, but for pods, overpaying for anchor/gimlet, etc)
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Anyways a good a time as any to resurface a the first mock-up I ever made, which was a ‘Spotify for podcasts’ app, 9 years ago