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
inspiring impossible conviction
We led with our conviction rather than rational, because rational said it was impossible.
problem solve company
The value of a company is the sum of the problems you solve.
focus consumers
Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
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.
way given asks
Ask yourself: given everything you have to do, is there a way that we can make this better?
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.
music numbers advantage
But right now we have an advantage of being the number one in music.
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.
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.
song news matter
Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
artist diversity people
It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.
order facts population
In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact that almost a third of the U.S. population have even heard of Spotify is really because they've seen it on Facebook and friends have been sharing.
two people gaga
In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears.
want inventor
I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.