“My hunch was that navigating to this page and looking at albums was too much work,” he said, speaking at the third annual conference held in San Jose last week. The recommendation feature, Newett recalled, seemed like a good idea, but wasn’t heavily used.

Newett joined Spotify in 2013, initially working on a team developing a web page with personalized information, news about artists, album releases, and local concerts, along with a recommender system that offered suggestions of albums a user might find appealing. Spotify software engineer Edward Newett started building the Discover Weekly recommender system as a side project. This tool launched about a year ago it now has 40 million users and is helping to build the careers of new artists. He was responsible for one of those amazing things: a way to help Spotify users discover new music called Discover Weekly. “Empower bottom-up innovation and amazing things will happen.” That’s what Spotify software engineer Edward Newett says.

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