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Mat Budelman

@designedbymat

Product Design for ML & Personalization at @Spotify Formerly: Design @evertrue, President of @aigaboston. Always hungry, never satisfied. 😁

 Providence, RI
linkedin.com/in/budelman/
Joined February 2009
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@eldsjal8 Jun 2022
Just kicked off our first investor day since going public in 2018. Excited to share more about our progress and talk about our financial goals for shareholders. spoti.fi/3MvaNxp
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@ShaanVP29 Oct 2021
Hot take: Everyone is wrong about the Metaverse. here's my 3 part theory..
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Podcasting just became more engaging than ever before 🎥 Turn your listeners into viewers with Video Podcasts on @Spotify. Learn more ⤵️ podcasters.spotify.com/blog/…

Find resources, tutorials, and more – Spotify for Creators

Discover insights, expert interviews, creator case studies, and much more to help grow your audio or video podcast.

creators.spotify.com
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@joulee17 Jun 2021
A/B test everything, and you'll get stuck on the treadmill of local maxima. A/B test nothing, and you'll leave lots of compounding growth on the table. A/B test optimizations, not product concepts. 4/7
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Cute Easter egg in the new subway train in Stockholm
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@joulee19 Mar 2021
You're in a panic. Your launch date is in a week. Your whole team's credibility is riding on your collective ability to make it happen. Leadership is Eye-of-Sauron-ing this project. There's just one problem. You suspect the product sucks. What do you do? A thread 👇 (1/9)
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🧰New Tool: Scorecards🧰 Scorecards were created by Spotify Product Designers to help define clear success metrics for a project. This transparent and collaborative artifact is now used to get everybody on the same page and prevent ambiguity. Check it out: spoti.fi/ScorecardsBlog
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Daniel Ek
@eldsjal18 Mar 2021
And it’s happening. From streaming on Spotify alone, we’re seeing growth from artists at all stages of their career: since 2017, the number of artists generating more than $50K/yr is up 80%; more than $100K/yr is up 85%; and more than $1M/year is up 90%.
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@eldsjal22 Feb 2021
Excited to share more about our Audio first strategy and where we are going... newsroom.spotify.com/stream-…
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Daniel Ek
@eldsjal22 Feb 2021
Audio has no barriers. We’re bringing Spotify to 80+ new markets in the coming weeks & adding 36 languages to our platform. #SpotifyStreamOn
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Today, Spotify is proud to introduce Work From Anywhere, which allows employees to choose to work from the place that suits their style best. Read more about our thinking. bit.ly/3pjhd73
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Michael Mignano
@mignano14 Oct 2020
1/ Today, I’m thrilled to announce that @Anchor is introducing a first-ever for audio creation: the ability to combine talk segments with full length music tracks from @Spotify’s catalogue of over 65 million songs. medium.com/@anchor/introduci…
Introducing a brand new way to create in Anchor, with all the music you love

Introducing a brand new way to create in Anchor, with all the music you love

Now, create audio shows in Anchor using full-length songs from Spotify’s entire music catalog. Combine songs with your own talk segments…

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@joulee29 Sep 2020
Let's try an experiment! I want to start a mentorship circle with: 8 young female product designers (between 2-5 years PD experience, currently IC) 7 one-hour sessions over 3 months 6 topics (designing career, honing skills, confidence, etc.) Know anyone? Please share widely!
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Every hero has an origin story. Listen (the home of music and audio on spotify.design) is no different. Discover how this champion of the sounds that inspire us came to be spoti.fi/Audioxdesign
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Jordan Singer
@jsngr18 Jul 2020
This changes everything. 🤯 With GPT-3, I built a Figma plugin to design for you. I call it "Designer"
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🎇New Blog Post @heikowinter takes us on a gif journey through the history of Spotify on iPad. If you're a designer working on products for #iPad, managing cross-functional relationships or designing for scale his insights just might just make your day. spoti.fi/4ipad
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Our career paths 💼, squad model 👀, and the life and times of a design manager at Spotify is explored in our new long read from Design Director @nicoleburrow. Want to know how to build awesome design teams🎨and help a band come together🎸? We got you: spotify.design/articles/2020…
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(1/2) Machine Learning is an indispensable tool at Spotify for delivering personal recommendations to 248+ million listeners. Designers have the important responsibility to bring a human-centred perspective to this technology. #Machinelearning #Productdesign
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Top 3 questions from @spotifydesign ! 1. Ask the right Q's 2. Identify friction and automate it away 3. Go manual before going magical ✨🤖 #mluxnyc #spotifydesignforML
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We're still accepting applications, apply now if you'd like to join us for an evening of design and machine learning🤖🎨
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Event Klaxon📢! We've been busy cooking up an event for the NYC design community with speakers from @GoogleDesign and @facebookdesign. Applications to attend close on 09/20. Find out more here: spotify.design/events/23-des…
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