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...
24 Maalis 202153min
02: How do you charge for nothing?
In this episode we tackle how Spotify went from being a popular free desktop app - but that nobody paid for - to being a mobile app that people actually paid for - even though users already had all th...
17 Maalis 202132min
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...
11 Maalis 202136min
00: The most epic battle in music history
This is where the Spotify product story begins. In this episode, we dive into the world that set the stage for Spotify and the streaming music revolution. In the early 2000s, piracy was killing the mu...
11 Maalis 202140min
Introducing Spotify: A Product Story
Product lessons from Spotify's past and future, hosted by Chief R&D Officer Gustav Söderström.
9 Maalis 20213min
