When machine learning matters · Erik Bernhardsson

I joined Spotify in 2008 to focus on machine learning and music recommendations. It's easy to forget, but Spotify's key differentiator back then was the low-latency playback. People would say that it felt like they had the music on their own hard drive. In 2009 after a crazy amount of negotiation the music labels agreed to try it out as an experiment. Music distribution is a trivial problem now.