03: This party is going to end

Spotify: A Product Story by Spotify

Mar 24, 202100:53:52Technology

This episode tells the story of how Spotify went into negative growth and nearly didn’t survive to it’s 5th birthday as the world around us suddenly changed…. You’ll learn how we had to reinvent our entire business model...

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