Sujatha Sundararaman: Music Recommendations & Generative AI in Music - AI Portfolio Podcast

Sujatha Sundararaman, a distinguished engineering leader and Head of Search, Understanding, and Voice at Google's YouTube Music (YTM). With a stellar track record in both startup and enterprise environments, Sujatha excels in steering ideas from conception to successful, revenue-generating products. 

📲 Sujatha Sundararaman Socials:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sujatha-sundararaman-49a339/

📲 Mark Moyou, PhD Socials:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markmoyou/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarkMoyou

📗 Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:17 LLM in Music Recommendations
04:28 Why music is important?
08:05 Exploration Vs Exploitation
11:48 Prevalence of remix songs
15:07 Why music recommendation problem is difficult?
20:30 Large datasets and diversity of users
25:54 Handling User experience and expectations in music
28:20 Categorizing Music and Content Understanding
32:28 Glocal Music Behavior
36:20 Multilingual Users
41:22 Building trust with YT music
46:19 Generative AI in Music
58:54 How dance drives music listening behavior?
01:01:17 Startup Lessons
01:06:02 Career Optimization Function
01:08:20 Networking and Switching Companies
01:11:14 Mentors
01:15:46 Managing a Team
01:18:43 How to manage world class teams?
01:21:32 Advice for Investors in AI space
01:23:32 Advice for startup founders
01:25:35 What value MBA provides?
01:28:58 3 book recommendations
01:32:15 How to approach job market?
01:37:50 Rapid Round