Since it’s inception in 2016, INR has been involved in many of music’s biggest cultural moments. Search was a crucial element in allowing users to easily find what they were looking for inside the desktop client or mobile app.įew record labels, artists, and distributors understand this concept.įundamentally, Spotify is a search engine.Ī ustin Staubus is the Managing Director of INR, a technology company located in Dallas. When you click on the song, it has to play lightening fast.” When you search for Linkin Park or ABBA, the result must be lightening fast. Alta Vista and Google, when you search for something, it has to be lightening fast. Then I also checked Google, which gave me inspiration.
They sent me to San Francisco, so actually one of the first places that I worked with Alta Vista, so I understood the search engine. Prior to that, he Co-founded Qwiki, acquired by Yahoo Doug is currently an active early stage. “One more comment there, actually I’m a board member of Telia + Sonera. He was the Co-founder & CEO of Podz, acquired by Spotify. As a result, he understood the importance of search when building the Spotify product.
Previous to co-founding Spotify, Martin worked at Alta Vista, which was a search engine. In the interview, he touched on important point about search that many missed. Martin Lorentzon, who rarely goes on record, is undoubtedly the under the radar co-founder at Spotify when compared to Daniel Ek. Without those licenses, there would be no Spotify. It took three years (from launching in 2008 to 2011) to acquire the content licenses that Spotify needed to stream everything from ABBA to Taylor Swift.
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