Gustav Söderström Profile
Gustav Söderström

@GustavS

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Co-President, CPO & CTO at Spotify. Love Science and Art - preferably intertwined.

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Joined April 2007
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@GustavS
Gustav Söderström
1 year
Pretty proud of the @Spotify team for this one – a generative, expressive and realistic AI DJ that delivers a personalized lineup of music and commentary to each user, for all those times you don’t know exactly what you want to hear. Hope you like it! 🎧
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Gustav Söderström
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This is maybe my favorite Spotify launch the last few years. It’s been a looong time in the making. I’m a huge book fan and I think that audiobooks in an access model can do to reading what the access model did to music and make a lot more people - that may not consider
@eldsjal
Daniel Ek
8 months
Today is a big, big day for @Spotify . And for book lovers everywhere. Audiobooks are coming to Spotify Premium! 🎧📚
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Gustav Söderström
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If you want to learn some secrets about the Spotify product, our history, some of our near misses, and generally what it’s like to be on a journey like this - to live and die by the MAU curve - here is a presentation I gave for students at MIT recently.
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Gustav Söderström
1 year
Today at #SpotifyStreamOn , we shared our greatest app evolution yet, take a look at the new Home Feed!
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Gustav Söderström
3 years
☠️~When Spotify almost died~☠️ How Spotify nearly didn’t make it’s 5th birthday as the world around us suddenly changed. Interviews with top analyst #MaryMeeker & Spotify insiders. And why it’s better to be lower on a tall 🏔than higher on a small one🧗‍♂️
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Gustav Söderström
8 months
I always knew @lexfridman and @StevenBartlett would sound amazing in Spanish too 😊 So glad that we could make it happen 🔥
@SpotifyNews
Spotify News
8 months
Do you dream of a world where some of the top podcasts would be spoken in your native language? Well, that’s now possible. We’re excited to pilot Voice Translation, a groundbreaking feature powered by AI that translates podcasts into additional languages—all in the podcaster’s
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Gustav Söderström
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While most people now start to understand what AI can do I find that most people (often even in tech) still don't have any real understanding of how it actually does these things. This means that they tend to either overestimate - or underestimate - what it can really do when
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Gustav Söderström
3 years
I made a podcast about Spotify's Product Story. In 1st 2 episodes I interview Spotify insiders like @eldsjal and @strigeus that made it happen, early music and tech movers like @larsulrich and @sparker and industry analysts like @ballmatthew 🙏🏻
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Daniel Ek
3 years
Over the years a lot of people asked me about the product foundation story and the 🎢 ride that led to the Spotify you know today. If you are in tech and want to get behind the scenes - this is it! 👏👏👏 to @gustavs for making this.
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Gustav Söderström
2 years
Big day for podcasters on @Spotify !Huge shoutout to all the amazing teams at Spotify who have worked hard to bring all of this new functionality to our Podcast creators and consumers 🙌🏻
@mignano
Michael Mignano
2 years
1/ Today, we’re thrilled to be opening up Video Podcasting (and a bunch of awesome new video features!) to all podcasters in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada on @Spotify through @Anchor .
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Gustav Söderström
10 months
Exciting news! Our integration with Patreon is live for users globally. This partnership underscores our commitment to give creators more power and choice, and provide listeners with access to all the content they love.
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Gustav Söderström
3 years
🎧What’s next in audio for Spotify?🤔 This is the season finale of the show, and in this episode we don’t know what the lessons will be yet (they may turn out to be painful and expensive..😬) but we share what we’re betting on based on our past learnings.
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Gustav Söderström
3 years
🏆Winning bet becomes losing bet🤦🏼‍♂️ This ep is esp geared twd CEOs/CTOs that have to kill their darlings.Listen to @uhoelzle and insiders as we journey from proprietary tech on a few servers in a cupboard, to partnering with Google and “moving up the stack”
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3 years
👩🎶 “Human vs Machine” 🤖🎼 Will AI truly replace us? 👀 Listen to ML legend @AndrewYNg and Spotify insiders like @TonyJebara and others on what it _really_ means to develop “AI first” products, how we invented “Algotorial” and how RL applies to music.
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Gustav Söderström
5 months
Had a super fun conversation with @scottbelsky , @cohentomer and @HarryStebbings on the @twentyminutevc podcast. We talked about what happens with product and design now that AI is the product.
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@GustavS
Gustav Söderström
7 months
Hey US people. Try it out! 📖📚🎧
@eldsjal
Daniel Ek
7 months
Audiobooks in Premium are now live in the US 🎧📚 🚀 Sharing a few of my favorites to celebrate. What are yours? Book I’ve read the most times: Pippi Longstocking 😂 Book that had big impact on me: Many. But, long ago - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Who would
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Gustav Söderström
3 years
Finally able to get my fix of the Stratechery and Dithering paid podcasts by @benthompson on Spotify 😎 To listen on Spotify, just sign in with your Stratechery account, link it to Spotify and the content will be unlocked in Spotify
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Gustav Söderström
10 months
Hope you find this useful! Full talk here:
@eldsjal
Daniel Ek
10 months
If you feel like you still don’t have a handle on the fundamentals of AI/LLMs, you might be interested in a talk @GustavS recently gave to our team. He dives into that how these systems work is actually much simpler than many of us think Full link:
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Gustav Söderström
3 years
🚨Hey! I made a podcast about Spotify's Product Story.🚨 In 1st 2 episodes I interview Spotify insiders like @eldsjal and @strigeus that made it happen, early music and tech movers like @larsulrich and @sparker and industry analysts like @ballmatthew 🙏🏻
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Gustav Söderström
3 years
How to enter a market that is dominated by your biggest competitor? 🤔
@SpotifyNews
Spotify News
3 years
Check out the latest episode of “Spotify: A Product Story,” where our Chief R&D Officer @GustavS explores Spotify’s bet on podcasts, the shift to audio-first, and four hard-won lessons in product strategy.
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Gustav Söderström
8 months
Been using the Jam feature internally for a while now. Sooo much fun, any room can bootstrap a party in seconds 🪩🕺 Happy to share it with the world 🌍
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Gustav Söderström
9 years
Took us 7 years to get the first 10M paid subscribers, 12 months to get the next 10. Watch out ;-)
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2 months
Absolutely loved this interview with legend and friend @hbarra . He’s seen so much of the tech era and has a ton of perspective and insight. And @benthompson is one of very few interviewers who understands the space and history deeply enough to ask all the really interesting -
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@GustavS
Gustav Söderström
5 years
Thanks for having me on the podcast @lexfridman It was huge fun! 🙌🏻
@lexfridman
Lex Fridman
5 years
Here's my conversation with Gustav Söderström ( @GustavS ), head of research and development at @Spotify , about machine learning & recommender systems in the world of music and podcasting. Extra meta-points if you listen to this podcast on Spotify.
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Gustav Söderström
4 years
Please help by acting now.
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Gustav Söderström
3 years
🔊 Hardware is hard 😓 On Spotify’s multi-year endeavor deep into the HW stack of the speaker world - creating a new media streaming protocol for the industry - in order to create a great experience. Interviews with @Sonos founder Tom Cullen & Spotifyers
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Gustav Söderström
3 months
Please check it out if you're interested in product development and AI! We put a lot of love into this 💚
@eldsjal
Daniel Ek
3 months
It’s been a whole year since we launched AI DJ! I hope you’ve liked it as much as I have. If you want a little backstory of how it came to be, check out the latest episode of Spotify: A Product Story from @GustavS and team. 🔈
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Gustav Söderström
2 years
Was great fun to spend som time with @pabbeel talking about applied ML 🤖🧠
@therobotbrains
The Robot Brains Podcast
2 years
#ML is in everyone's lives when it comes to #music . @GustavS , Chief R&D Officer of @Spotify , joins the podcast to share how they personalize playlists for their 405+ million users.
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Gustav Söderström
3 years
Thanks @ballmatthew for joining the show and discussing media strategy with me. Always fun! 🙏🏻
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Gustav Söderström
3 years
How do you enter a market that is dominated by your biggest competitor? 🤔
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Gustav Söderström
3 years
Thanks so much @lexfridman . Very humbling company to mentioned alongside ☺️🙏🏻
@lexfridman
Lex Fridman
3 years
Recent podcast episodes I really enjoyed: - @SamHarrisOrg on free will - @joerogan on physics & wrestling - @TimJDillon on life - @JackRhysider on security & human hacking - @APompliano on bitcoin & business - @hubermanlab on emotion - @GustavS on music & piracy Check them out!
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Gustav Söderström
3 years
🛠 When to build vs buy 💰 - and when to give it away! 💸 Hear the story of Backstage - Spotify’s “platform of platforms” and our decision to open source it. Interviews with @prefectIO founder @jlowin and Spotify insiders.
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Gustav Söderström
10 months
Check it out! Big update 🏎️🎶
@eldsjal
Daniel Ek
11 months
If you drive a Tesla - you’ll probably notice a pretty major update to Spotify today. Here’s a look at what you can expect.🏎️ Let me know what you think!
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Gustav Söderström
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Spent some time talking through the implications of AI with @mignano recently. Got through a bunch of interesting topics, including the future of product development and design, recommendations and personalization, music and media creation and work - as well as risks and
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Gustav Söderström
3 years
Also, if you didn’t already realize from the podcast episode that the team working on backstage is pretty awesome... 😎
@TejasKumar_
Tejas Kumar
3 years
🔥 MAJOR CAREER ANNOUNCEMENT! I wanted to: - solve problems at massive scale, - do open source full time, - have it be related to a hobby, - work with people I enjoy and admire. Excited to start my new job at...
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4 years
New deep dive from @ballmatthew Some fascinating graphs in there!
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Gustav Söderström
12 years
Sweden can be so beautiful it hurts this time of year... http://t.co/OxQTnZQn
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Gustav Söderström
2 years
I’ve had the great fortune of spending a bunch of time with @hbarra ❤️ He has one of the most unique product development experiences in tech having done large scale HW & SW across both US & China. This interview with @HarryStebbings is a must listen!
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Gustav Söderström
3 years
Also in this episode, the story of how Spotify got an early start in Machine Learning thanks to @fulhack , the acquisitions of Tunigo (founded by @nickmanic ) and The Echo Nest (founded by @bwhitman and @tjehan ) and how these led to the system we have today.
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@GustavS
Gustav Söderström
4 years
Thanks for having me @conniechan Was super fun!
@conniechan
Connie Chan 🍒
4 years
In this a16z podcast, @smc90 and I chat with Spotify's Chief Product and R&D officer, @GustavS , about the future of audio, Original Shows, and more. Have a listen!
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Gustav Söderström
3 years
🚨 New Episode Out Today! 🚨 This week on how we went from a popular free desktop app - but that nobody paid for - to a mobile app that people actually paid real money for - even though they already had all their pirated music on their phone for free...
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@GustavS
Gustav Söderström
3 years
Check it out!
@mignano
Michael Mignano
3 years
1/ Today, we’re thrilled to be launching @Spotify Paid Subscriptions, enabling creators to stand up their own podcast subscription businesses on @anchor . This marks a new era for podcast monetization through a platform that’s purpose built for creators.
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Gustav Söderström
2 years
This was a lot of fun! Harry’s hat is his secret weapon 👒
@HarryStebbings
Harry Stebbings
2 years
Through 20Product I have had the chance to sit down with the best product minds in the world. @GustavS is one of the all time greats @Spotify and this one is not to be missed tomorrow. 🔥 👇
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Gustav Söderström
4 months
Was really great spending time with @mignano on-air! 🎙️ Got pretty deep into what product development in an AI world means and how we think about it at Spotify. But also touched on a few more philosophical questions around AI and it’s risks and benefits which I rarely get to talk
@mignano
Michael Mignano
4 months
"The AI is the product." Always a pleasure speaking with @Spotify 's co-president/CPO/CTO, @GustavS , who delivered a perfect lesson on the future of AI in this long form conversation. I've had the pleasure of knowing and learning from Gustav for many years, yet even I picked a
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Gustav Söderström
4 months
Super happy to be part of this team 😊
@HarryStebbings
Harry Stebbings
4 months
I have been fortunate enough to become friends with the best product minds in the world through 20Product on 20VC. Now I get to work and invest with them also. A special and proud day. 🔥 👇 @GustavS @hbarra @jackdbrody @glencoates @geoffintech @will_wu @cohentomer
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Gustav Söderström
8 years
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@eldsjal
Daniel Ek
8 years
40 is the new 30. Million. 😄
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Gustav Söderström
4 years
RIP John Conway 😔
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Gustav Söderström
9 years
Great news! @13thlab gets acquired by Facebook/Oculus. Huge congrats to the team. Very proud of you! http://t.co/Ww5pnoXTEN
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Gustav Söderström
3 years
If you’re not already familiar with the brilliance of Kurzgesagt, this is a good place to start! - “How Many People Did Nuclear Energy Kill?”
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Gustav Söderström
9 years
None of us should be getting any sleep right now... This is what the "immigrant problem" actually looks like.
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Gustav Söderström
2 years
Community prediction for arrival of Weakly General AI has moved from 2043 to 2027 since April. Pretty crazy slope… 👀
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Gustav Söderström
3 years
Thanks so much for pulling the lessons together @davidbauer 🙏🏻😊
@davidbauer
David Bauer (find me elsewhere)
3 years
Spotify: A Product Story by @GustavS is packed with great insights and product strategy lessons. I pulled them all together into a short summary.
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Gustav Söderström
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List time - My top 50 TED talks! with comments, by request, please add yours! http://www.gustavsoderstrom.com/?p=549
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Gustav Söderström
8 years
Pump up the jam with Spotify Party!
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Gustav Söderström
5 years
Fascinating and worthwhile read for any engineer. Seems root cause _may_ be FAA forcing SW deadlines. FAA’s response? Forcing new SW to be shipped “no later than April!” 🤔
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Gustav Söderström
3 years
Had a really great discussion with @matthewputman on everything from music and AI to language and why life is worth living! 🙂 Thanks for having me!
@nanotronics
nanotronics
3 years
Today we interviewed @GustavS , @Spotify Chief R&D Officer. Gustav is a pioneer in the transformation of how people listen and engage with music. We discuss AI, Machine Learning, and music and our understanding of the universe, enjoy! @KTHuniversity
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Gustav Söderström
4 years
What would the world look like if someone like @jacindaardern could’ve been the 46th POTUS... Just so incredibly impressed with her (and jealous of the Kiwis). This is what modern, intelligent, available and humble leadership looks like... ?
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Gustav Söderström
2 years
Tack @ChSturmark för en mycket rolig konversation på Fri Tanke-podden om hur AI ger filosofin nya angreppsmetoder för att fundera på de lite större frågorna runt vad intelligens, medvetande och meningen med mänskligheten egentligen är 👀🤔
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Gustav Söderström
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Rest In Peace Daniel Dennet. Daniel was one of our best thinkers on the philosophy of mind and he brought a lot of exciting ideas and concepts into the world, and thus a lot of joy into my life.
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Gustav Söderström
3 years
So great to interview you @uhoelzle . Having the wisdom of the entire journey from the first Google servers in Susan's garage to Google Cloud Platform today - all in one single person - is such a privilege. Very grateful to get some of that wisdom and insight 🙏🏻
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Urs Hölzle
3 years
One of the hardest insights to make is when the thing that made you very successful has outlived its time and needs to go. Featuring GCP (in a good way😎).
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Gustav Söderström
9 years
Here is the full Spotify event from yesterday http://t.co/e6dwQHHuUC Big personal moment at min 39 talking to @tiesto on music innovation
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Gustav Söderström
3 years
Huge thanks to @mayafish , @howardakumiah , @mignano and @NirZicherman for the great interviews and sharing your thoughts and passion about the future of audio! It was great having you on the show 🙌🏻
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Gustav Söderström
3 years
It was my pleasure @TonyJebara 🙏🏻
@TonyJebara
Tony Jebara
3 years
Enjoyed chatting about Spotify’s journey into Personalization, Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning with @AndrewYNg and @GustavS our chief R+D officer. Check it out on Spotify: A Product Story!
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Gustav Söderström
1 year
@lennysan So glad to hear that! 💚🙏🏻
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Gustav Söderström
10 years
Very proud of my team and Spotify today - Spotify paints it black with new look http://t.co/GOpQ7XHH6F
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Gustav Söderström
3 years
Thanks so much @AndrewYNg for being on the show and inspiring a bunch of our learnings, was great speaking with you again 🙏🏻
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Gustav Söderström
9 years
And you did it so awesomely well! *bow*
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Gustav Söderström
3 years
Deep - and poetic as always - on TikTok by @eugenewei 🔥
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Gustav Söderström
3 years
Great lessons from @jlowin !
@jlowin
Jeremiah Lowin
3 years
“Hope is not an investment strategy.” @Spotify ’s product story has never been told before. On the latest episode, I joined CPO/CTO @GustavS to discuss internal products, successful open-source models, and, of course, the decision to release Backstage.
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Gustav Söderström
4 years
You can’t not love Allison! 🎸🤘🏻
@allihagendorf
Allison Hagendorf
4 years
My new show “Rock This with Allison Hagendorf” is LIVE NOW, exclusively on @spotify . This is YOUR show for all things Rock and Alternative! 🤘🏻❤️✊🏻 Episode 1 featuring @yungblud 🖤 is up now. Follow and check it out here: #RockThis #yungblud #spotify
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Gustav Söderström
3 years
Thanks so much @uhoelzle for being on the show, was super fun! 🙏🏻
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Gustav Söderström
2 years
@mignano @Spotify @twentyminutevc Only good stuff! A bias towards shipping is always a good thing 💪🏻
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Gustav Söderström
7 years
So the legends are true! I've been sitting right next to Flamingo for years! O_o
@mpawlo
Mikael Pawlo
7 years
. @Vincent0K CTO:n på Spotify såg ut så här i Svenska Hemdator Nytt 3/1990. Ping @eldsjal
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Gustav Söderström
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Very cool if you live in Sweden :D http://radiofy.se/
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Gustav Söderström
9 years
Check it out! Awesome new Spotify Running Original by some of the best EDM artist in the business. http://t.co/C4AijCOipv
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Gustav Söderström
8 years
En Beatleslåt från mig till dig. #BeatlesonSpotify
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Gustav Söderström
13 years
If you haven't seen it, see it! Macworld 1997 - The Microsoft deal http://t.co/NNN6tBn
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Gustav Söderström
5 years
The baud rate on @Plinz 35C3 -The Ghost in the Machine talk is very high as usual - and it is also very entertaining! gustav:\> kill -s exoself 👀
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Gustav Söderström
8 years
Was Google's investment in hands free driving between multiple map points in support of Pokémon Go all along??!! 😮
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Gustav Söderström
13 years
Video of my talk at KTH on being an engineer. Let's hope it convinced someone to start studying :-) (Swedish) http://bit.ly/e4r6HJ
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Gustav Söderström
14 years
Watch our 3D Landscape demo on a Xperia X10 http://bit.ly/8hMVqb #maps #3D #android (via @EricssonLabs )
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Gustav Söderström
9 years
I think this is pretty awesome. Norms and values changing. Humanity progressing http://t.co/f53DEsGzvk
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Gustav Söderström
4 years
Have been hearing rumors about this for quite some time. It’s finally public, and it’s very cool! 😎
@tegmark
Max Tegmark
4 years
Got data and wonder if there's a formula describing it? Try our new physics-inspired AI Feynman algorithm, published today. It automates what took Kepler 4 years:
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New blog post: Why Apple will build a TV in 2010 http://www.gustavsoderstrom.com/?p=410
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Gustav Söderström
3 years
@jlowin @Spotify Thanks for adding that lesson Jeremiah. Was a real treat having you on the show! 🙌🏻
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