Lex Fridman, a postdoctoral associate at the MIT AgeLab, had a conversation with Gustav Soderstrom, Chief Research & Development Officer at Spotify, leading Product, Design, Data, Technology & Engineering teams.
Purpose of music in society, History of music, Piracy and the internet, competing with free, Innovation in music streaming user experience, Video content, YouTube, and the focus on audio, Growing a user base , Letting go of music hoarding, Playlists and machine learning, Song data analysis, Tools for empowering the music creation process, Albums and podcasting, Recommender systems & machine learning, Smart speakers, Music labels, Future of music streaming, Future of mobile devices and Her were talked in this conversation.