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04: Human vs Machine

Spotify: A Product Story

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Algorithms Aren't Scalable, but They Scale Incredibly Well

In an ideal world, we would be able to hire three professional editors per user. Unfortunately, just can't afford to have 900 million editors on staff for 300 million users. While the algos aren't quite as refined as the editors, they do scale incredibly well. And we literally can have an alga working 24 hours per day for every listener.

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