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Daniel Ek [0-0] Swedish

Rank: 102
Businessman, Entrepreneur

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

Legal, Best, Cool, Music, Technology, Travel

Quote	Tags	Rank
At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.	Best, Music	101
I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.	Cool, Travel	102
I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.		103
With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.		104
I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.	Technology	105
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.	Legal	106
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.		107
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.		108
I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.		109
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.	Legal	110
Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.		111
At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.		112
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.		113
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.		114
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.		115
People just want to have access to all of the world's music.		116
In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears.		117
The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'		118
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.		119

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