We sit down with Spotify CEO Daniel Ek live in Stockholm at Spotify’s amazing HQ studio (check out the video version of this episode — which plays natively on Spotify!). This was an incredibly special and timely conversation: for those who haven’t been paying attention over the past few years, after revolutionizing music Spotify has now ALSO completely transformed our own industry in podcasting. Starting from way behind with ~zero market share in 2018, Spotify has now aggregated the listener market and amazingly surpassed Apple as the world’s largest podcast platform — including close to home with the Acquired audience, where it has 60%+ market share among you all!
We discuss the origins of this “second act” strategy with Daniel, the vision to move from a music company to an audio company, and what’s coming next with Spotify’s entry into Audiobooks. And of course we relive some key moments from the Acquired canon that Daniel was involved in, including his pivotal conversations with Taylor Swift and her team convincing her to come back to streaming following the release of 1984. Tune in!
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Episode 30: P.A. Semi + AuthenTec
Episode 29: Special—2016 Review and 2017 Predictions
Episode 28: The Amazon IPO with original Amazon Board Member Tom Alberg
Episode 27: Special—A Conversation with Microsoft's Head of Strategic Investments Brian Schultz
Episode 26: Marvel
Episode 25: The Facebook IPO
Episode 24: Skype
Episode 23: NeXT (Live show at the GeekWire Summit)
Episode 22: Zillow + Trulia (with Zillow Group CFO Kathleen Philips)
Episode 21: Inside the M&A Press with Bloomberg's Alex Sherman
Episode 20: Android
Episode 19: Jet
Episode 18: Special—An Acquirer’s View into M&A with Taylor Barada, head of Corp Dev at Adobe
Acquired Episode 17: Waze
Acquired Episode 16: Midroll + Stitcher (acquired by Scripps)
Acquired Episode 15: ExactTarget (acquired by Salesforce) with Scott Dorsey
Episode 14: LinkedIn
Episode 13: Push Pop Press (Facebook Instant Articles) with Todd Bishop
Episode 12: Snapchat
Episode 11: PayPal
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