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Episode: Why Spotify wants to look like TikTok, with co-president Gustav Söderström
Description: Gustav Söderström has worked at Spotify for a long time; his first big project was leading the launch of its mobile app back in 2009. That makes him the perfect company leader to talk to about Spotifyâs recent redesign, which introduces a visual, TikTok-like feed for discovering new content on the appâs homepage. As his boss CEO Daniel Ek put it last week, itâs âthe biggest change Spotify has undergone since we introduced mobile.âWith the title of co-president and chief product and technology officer, Söderström is responsible for not only how Spotify lo...