Strategy question
You’re a PM at Spotify. The company is considering adding a feature that allows artists to go live on the app. Should they invest in it?
- Spotify
- Strategy
- Hard
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What this question tests
Tests investment-decision reasoning, weighing a new feature's opportunity against cost and strategic fit.
How to approach it
- Assess strategic fit: live audio or video from artists deepens fan engagement but competes with existing artist tools like Instagram Live and Twitch.
- Assess market signal: artists already livestream elsewhere, so the question is whether Spotify can capture that moment inside its own app.
- Weigh the cost: real-time infrastructure and moderation are new, expensive capabilities unlike Spotify's core on-demand streaming stack.
- Recommend a scoped pilot with a small set of major-label artist partners first, measuring engagement lift before committing to full infrastructure.
- Define success as listener session time during and after a live event, artist opt-in rate, and free-to-premium conversion tied to exclusive live content.
What a strong answer includes
- Gives a conditional yes-but-pilot-first recommendation grounded in real infrastructure and cost trade-offs.
- Ties monetization to a plausible premium-conversion lever, exclusive live access, specific to Spotify's subscription model.
- Names a concrete pilot scope, major-label artist partners, instead of a vague full rollout.
Common mistakes
- Saying yes purely because artists want it, without weighing build cost or infrastructure risk.
- Not connecting the feature to Spotify's premium-conversion business model.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you decide which artists to pilot with first?
- What would make you kill this investment after the pilot?
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Chapters of the AI PM course that teach what this question tests.
- Chapter 4: Discovery and strategy for AI products
- Chapter 9: Prove it paid off: outcomes, economics, and pricing
- Chapter 14: Get the job: the AI PM interview loop