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= Camille Hearst =

She was born and raised in San Francisco. She came in the age of first dot.com wave. This shaped her vision for what is possible. Her parents were creative. Her dad was a musician and her mom was an artist.

She was an undergraduate at Stanford when Google went public. It opened her eyes to the world of entrepreneurship. Her fellowship with the prestigious Mayfield Fellows Program was transformative. The program is designed to introduce entrepreneurship to engineers. It gave her the tools and framework to envision herself as an entrepreneur.

She worked in technology for 9 years, including stints at some of the best technology companies. She spent 5 years at Apple and 3 years at Google (2 of which were at YouTube). Camille Hearst then wanted to obtain some experience working at a growth stage technology company. She moved to New York to work at Hailo. Hailo unfortunately didn’t survive. As she contemplated next steps, I considered looking for a small start-up. But then she met her co-founder, Naveen Selvadurai. They identified a big problem that they were passionate about solving. So they started KIT in 2015.

Career

Camille Hearst has been named head of Spotify for Artists, the resource the streaming giant provides for artists and their teams to better understand and build their audiences via statistics, insights, and other educational resources.

In this new role, she will be responsible for managing a cross-functional team including product, tech, design, user research, and more. Hearst is based in New York and reports to Charlie Hellman, the company’s VP and head of the marketplace.

Hearst joins from Patreon, where she served as head of product, creator & general manager, merch. Previously, she founded Kit, which is described as a community to discover, discuss, and acquire products, and which was acquired by Patreon in 2018. She also held roles at Google, YouTube, the transportation app Hailo and Apple’s iTunes.

Spotify for Artists recently announced that it has leveraged its partnership with the concert and live stream discovery app Songkick and Ticketmaster, enabling Spotify listeners to view virtual event listings on artist profiles and in the Concerts hub.

In April, the company also announced The Artist Fundraising Pick, a new option in its Spotify for Artists platform that is an effort to help artists raise money for themselves and their musicians and crews — or other artists, as well as certain charities. Similar to the way artists can select a song to highlight on their profile as an Artist’s Pick, they can highlight a fundraising destination (in addition to their Artist’s Pick). Spotify has a group of initial fundraising partners: Artists can choose to add a link to Cash App, GoFundMe, and PayPal.me.

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