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Emily Flippen

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But to your point, Jason, their ability to upsell people, especially into things like audiobook hours, has been incredible.

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Just this past quarter, they announced that they're going to be getting into physical books as well, allowing people to pick up where they left off.

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If you're in the process of half-listening, half-reading a book, they're bridging that gap.

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I love to see that level of innovation from this management team.

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And I understand that this is a controversial company, though, because this is, again, a company that everybody loves to hate.

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Toby, I have to ask myself, though, when Jason says, look, we have 200 million premium paid subscribers.

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They're growing at a double-digit rate.

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They have over 750 million monthly active users.

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I mean, wrap your head around that number.

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I have to ask myself, is there an upper limit to their performance?

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Because where does the company go from here?

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I've been waiting for the slowdown to happen.

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It just hasn't happened yet.

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I'm daring to dream there, Jason.

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I will say the big mistake that I think investors make with companies like Spotify, myself included, by the way, is assuming that things do have to slow.

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We tend to discount innovation and optionality in business models.

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We tend to extrapolate the world as we know it today.

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I know when I put together a financial model, I put in expectations around how

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everything operates today.

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If it continues in this direction, where is the company?