The pod covers much ground, including:
Where the future of audio is going more broadly...
Does understanding radio help for future audio experiences...
Improving user experience, product design, recommendations, discovery...
The increased blending of talk, podcasting, and music...
More super apps and full-stack approaches...
"How do mediums — and organizations — evolve, prioritize, and disrupt themselves?"
Gustav Söderström is the Chief Research + Development Officer at Spotify.
He oversees the product, design, data, and engineering teams at Spotify and is responsible for their product strategy.
Söderström is a startup seed investor and has been an advisor to Tictail since 2013 and was formerly an advisor to 13th Lab. Before joining Spotify in 2009, Söderström was director of product and business development for Yahoo! Mobile from 2006 to 2009.
In 2003, Söderström founded Kenet Works, a company that developed community software for mobile phones and served as the company’s Chief Executive Officer until it was acquired by Yahoo! in 2006.
Söderström holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Good pod this.
