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A Chat With The King of Music: An Interview With Daniel Ek
The founder of Teenage Engineering opens up to his creative space
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Daniel Ek (episode on Acquired podcast) on how constraints breed creativity:
“Constrained growth is a plus. It helped Spotify learn how to come out with a compelling product before it broke into US market. The geographic isolation also helped insulate Spotify’s culture and build something from first principles rather than osmosis from the existing
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There is an overload of music. 60,000 songs are uploaded to Spotify every day. Over 20% of those don’t get streamed even once. The ubiquitous access to almost every piece of recorded music in history has led to a paradox of choice, promoting passive and playlist-driven music consumption and creating winner-take-all effects for the biggest artists.
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Ek: “It used to be before that if you were a musician, you just put out music. But almost every successful creator now is omni- talented and omni-channel. That means that they are on YouTube putting up videos. They are on Instagram. They are perhaps putting together brands and putting it on Shopify, but they're also putting out music and merchandis... See more