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
Daniel Ek quotes about
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.
people way months
There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
people want world
People just want to have access to all of the world's music.
people want pay
The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.
people trying spotify
With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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.