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“We can’t rest on our laurels. We believe the market we’re going after is audio. That adds up to 2-3 billion people around the world who want to consume some sort of audio content on a daily or weekly basis. If we’re going to win that market, we’d have to be at least a third of it. We have somewhere between 10-15x of where we are now of opportunity... See more
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Daniel Ek – The Future of Audio - [Invest Like the Best, EP.147]
Daniel Ek, the CEO, is selling $100 million in Spotify stock. This couldn’t happen at a worse time.
Ted Gioia • Panic Among the Streamers
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
Tobias Lutke • Mark Zuckerberg + Spotify & Shopify's CEOs discuss the Creator Economy on PressClub
Daniel Ek – The Future of Audio - [Invest Like the Best, EP.147]
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Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Daniel Ek – The Future of Audio - [Invest Like the Best, EP.147]

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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SeanParker – Sean Parker 's Email to Spotify's Daniel Ek
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