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04: Human vs Machine

Spotify: A Product Story

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The Human in the Loop

In 20 13, even before we bought the econist, we acquired meg's former employer, tunigo. Tunigo was founded by a song writer and music producer named nick holdnstan in sweden in two thousand and ten. The job of a product manager in a machine learning world is to find metric objectives and source data sets that can objectively describe what grade actually looks like or sounds like at scale. We were trying to reach users who also loved music, but who didn't speak the music vocabulary of triphop lopi, electronic and e d m,. And wanted to spend less time playlisting and more time listening. But one plus one still just added up to two

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