My conversation with Gustav Söderström (@GustavS), Co-CEO of Spotify.
0:00 How Gustav Prepared To Become CEO
2:30 There Is No Right Org
5:06 Synchronized Swimming At Spotify
9:25 You Ship Your Org Chart
10:31 Why Apple's Functional Org Works
11:48 Tenure Is The Key
13:31 Oracle vs. Elon On Churn
16:41 Finding Your North Star
18:24 Choosing Pain For Distribution
19:21 Prioritize The User Over Yourself
23:05 The No Regrets Strategy
25:21 Building A Running Playlist With AI
27:35 Figuring Out What To Spend Your Life On
30:01 Being Honest About Doing Good
32:25 The Anti-Engagement Decision
34:50 Giving Users Control Of The Algorithm
37:57 The 1-9-90 Power Law
40:23 Getting Into AI Early
43:55 You Are Your Thoughts
48:22 Building Tools That Enhance Humanity
49:45 The Genius Of The Kindle
51:57 When Steve Jobs Came To Kill Spotify
54:24 Three Bets Against Apple
57:07 Building A Personal AI Agent
1:00:55 Premeditated Media
1:02:27 Who Tells You The Truth
1:05:16 The Vulcan Mind Meld Of Tenure
1:07:28 Hiring For Spikes And Fresh Blood
1:10:14 What Keeps Him Up At Night
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Rick Rubin on why a lot of successful people sabotage themselves:
“Success is a funny thing. You think that's the thing that you want, but when you get it it's not like what you think it is.”
“All these pressures that come with it no one's ready for.”
The 4 most common ways successful people implode: drugs, alcohol, women, and megalomania.
“Genius level talents have completely imploded and destroyed their lives.”
“It's a brave face. They might not know this. They rarely know it. It's different sides of the same imbalance.”
@garrytan My co-founder and I did a walkthrough demo with a prospect customer yesterday and discovered a flow we thought worked properly actually didn’t.
The customer pointed it out, we fixed it within 5 minutes, showed her the update immediately, and she was pleased.
Rick Rubin has a fanatical devotion to finding the best version of whatever he's interested in:
"I think of myself as a researcher of anything that I'm interested in.
I'll go forever going deeper and deeper and deeper into a topic.
Read opposing opinions.
Go deeper and deeper and deeper.
Just try and understand.
Anything I'm interested in, I want to know everything about it.
Even mundane things.
If I drink coffee, I want to taste a million coffees.
I want to find the best coffee.
I want to read what every person who knows about the best machine says about every machine, and then test every machine.
It's just a fanatical devotion to finding the best version of whatever it is."
My conversation with @RickRubin
0:00 Less Is More But Harder
2:00 Def Jam From The Dorm Room
4:00 Capturing Club Energy On Record
6:00 Going Deep On Influences
12:30 Why Reduced By Rick Rubin
14:00 Beatles Structure Meets Rap
16:00 The Ruthless Edit
19:30 Eminem: The Most Obsessive Artist
22:00 Lazy Workaholic
25:30 Protecting The Moment Of Magic
29:00 Dana White And Becoming A Podcaster
32:30 Professional Listener
44:00 Fishing And Showing Up
47:00 Johnny Cash And Constraints
55:30 Church Business vs. Banking Business
58:50 Run On Intuition Alone
1:01:00 Jay-Z vs. Eminem Process
1:04:30 In Service Of The Artist
1:09:00 Work As Diary Entries
1:13:30 Four Ways Success Destroys You
1:16:00 How To Sustain Success
1:21:00 The House On The Mountain
Includes paid partnerships.