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Mar 2021

38m 33s

The NFT Craze and the Future of Spotify ...

TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee

About this episode

Youngme , Mihir , and Felix discuss the hype surrounding NFTs (non-fungible tokens). They also dig into recent music industry trends and what they mean for the future of Spotify and other streaming players.

Recent picks, and recommended reading/websites:

Counterpart (Amazon Prime Video)
The Bureau (Amazon Prime Video)
Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro novel)

You can visit our website at HarvardAfterHours.com. You can email your comments and ideas for future episodes to: harvardafterhours@gmail.com. You can follow Youngme, Mihir, Rebecca, and Rawi on Twitter at: @YoungmeMoon, @DesaiMihirA, @RebeccaReCap, and @RawiAbdelal.

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