Daniel Ek
Daniel Ek
Daniel Ek is a Swedish entrepreneur and a technologist. Ek is co-founder and CEO of the music streaming service Spotify and previous CEO of µTorrent, a popular BitTorrent client...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth21 February 1983
CountrySweden
guy uncertain wanted
I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.
people advice networking
With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter than any survey or discussion with a big company.
winning musician want
At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.
thinking artist creating
This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.
music numbers advantage
But right now we have an advantage of being the number one in music.
song track waiting
No one wants to wait for tracks to buffer or spend hours searching through a Web site to find their favorite song.
way given asks
Ask yourself: given everything you have to do, is there a way that we can make this better?
artist creating people
There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
focus consumers
Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
problem solve company
The value of a company is the sum of the problems you solve.
inspiring impossible conviction
We led with our conviction rather than rational, because rational said it was impossible.