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Lex Fridman Podcast

Gustav Soderstrom: Spotify

Lex Fridman Podcast

Lex Fridman

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.713K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2019

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

Gustav Soderstrom is the Chief Research & Development Officer at Spotify, leading Product, Design, Data, Technology & Engineering teams. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on iTunes or support it on Patreon.

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0:00.0

The following is a conversation with Gustav Sornstrom.

0:04.0

He's the chief research and development officer

0:06.1

Spotify leading their product design, data, technology,

0:09.8

and engineering teams.

0:11.3

As I've said before, in my research and in life in general,

0:15.3

I love music, listening to it and creating it.

0:18.7

And using technology, especially personalization

0:22.4

through machine learning to enrich the music discovery

0:25.6

and listening experience.

0:28.0

That is what Spotify has been doing for years,

0:30.4

continually innovating, defining how we experience music

0:33.7

as a society and a digital age.

0:36.2

That's what Gustav and I talk about among many other topics,

0:39.3

including our shared appreciation of the movie True Romance,

0:43.4

in my view, one of the great movies of all time.

0:46.2

This is the Artificial Intelligence Podcast.

0:49.4

If you enjoy it, subscribe by YouTube.

0:51.7

Give it five stars and iTunes, support it on Patreon,

0:54.7

or simply connect with me on Twitter at Lex Friedman.

0:58.1

Spelt F-R-I-D-M-A-N.

1:01.4

And now here's my conversation with Gustav Sornstrom.

1:06.2

Spelt F-R-I-D-M-A-N.

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