02: How do you charge for nothing?

Spotify: A Product Story by Spotify

Mar 17, 202100:32:51Technology

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 their pirated music on...

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