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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
18 May 2023 Acquired Spotify CEO Daniel Ek
“I'm not sure I'd go that far, but I would rather saturate our niche and then at some point, stop growing, than expand the niche, which I think we have 3X–4X headroom on our current.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 18 May 2023
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Spotify CEO Daniel Ek
Transcript context
…We are right in the middle of figuring this out. You always said for a long time, you're like, I would rather not have growth and keep our audience who they are. I'm not sure I'd go that far, but I would rather saturate our niche and then at some point, stop growing, than expand the niche, which I think we have 3X–4X headroom on our current. Yes, we still can expand in our niche, but then we did our Taylor Swift episode. We did the NBA, we did the NFL, and then we did LVMH. In LVMH, we got 40,000 new subscribers. We were like, okay. To your point, something is hacked here. There's a new phenomenon or something.…
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