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Daniel Ek      

Entrepreneur, Technologist, CEO & Co-Founder of Spotify

Daniel Ek is a Swedish billionaire entrepreneur and technologist. Ek is best known as the co-founder and CEO of the music streaming service Spotify.

Ed established Spotify by partnering with the co-founder of Tradedoubler, Martin Lorentzon. He offered a unique value proposition to all music lovers around the world. So, by enabling the audience with free online music, Daniel eradicated the need of downloading music or buying costly music subscriptions. In 2008, Spotify was formally launched and it gained huge attention from investors and audience alike. Millions of subscribers post and listening to songs regularly. Spotify was a success from the jump, earning a $27 billion market value on the first day of trading.

Ek is a technologist who started his first company 1997 at the age of 14. Prior to Spotify, Daniel was the initial CTO of Stardoll, the fashion & entertainment community for tweens. He was also the CEO of Torrent, the worlds most popular BitTorrent client with more than 100 million downloads. Daniel has also founded Advertigo, the advertising company acquired by TradeDoubler, as well as been a part of the nordic auction company Tradera (acquired by Ebay).

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Spotify's Daniel Ek on the New Swedish Millionaires - Bloomberg
Daniel Ek grew up a pirate. He was a young computing whiz who, like many Swedes of his generation, set his talents to swapping free files, music, and movies ...
Spotify co-founder Ek says no intention to sell | Reuters
Daniel Ek, co-founder of Swedish music streaming service Spotify which has the biggest paid subscriber base in the world, said on Thursday he had no intention ...
SXSW: Spotify's Daniel Ek Says the Ideal User Experience 'Is Not So ...
When a South By Southwest attendee is described as “perhaps the most relevant man" at the festival, it's no surprise that speaker can nearly fill a theater. Daniel ...
Spotify's Daniel Ek on the Future of Music Streaming, Competing ...
If you're a business now and you're only on the PC, you're going to have some serious problems.” That's how Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek described the  ...
Spotify Founder Daniel Ek Wanted to Create Something 'Better than ...
Daniel Ek, the 29-year-old founder of Spotify, wasn't inspired by Pandora or Facebook when it came to building his popular streaming and very-social music ...
The future of music, according to Spotify's Daniel Ek | Internet ...
Your home's tunes controlled by a wave of the hand or a voice command? It could happen, and the big-thinking Swede believes his music service could be the ...
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Spotify's Daniel Ek: I don't worry about Apple, Google | SXSW ...
As Google and others gear up to enter the streaming-music business, the Spotify founder says he's staying focused on bringing music to as many people as ...
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