Daniel Ek

Biography

Co-founder and CEO of Spotify, pioneer of music streaming.

"The future of audio is not just music - it's all forms of audio content."

—Daniel Ek, Stream On Event (2023), March 8, 2023, Los Angeles

"AI will enable every person to have a personalized DJ and music curator."

—Daniel Ek, Spotify Investor Day (2022), June 8, 2022, New York

"The marginal cost of distributing content is zero, but the cost of creating great content is not."

—Daniel Ek, Code Conference (2019), September 10, 2019, Interview by Peter Kafka

"We're not in the music business - we're in the business of moments."

—Daniel Ek, Financial Times Interview (2020), October 5, 2020, p. 14

"The next billion users will come from markets where data is expensive and phones are cheap."

—Daniel Ek, Mobile World Congress (2018), February 26, 2018, Barcelona