Before we begin, we suggest you plug in your headphones, open Spotify, and listen to the following playlist. Listening to it will help you have a better, more musical experience while reading this article, and will enable you to better understand the music taste of Daniel Ek, Spotify’s founder and the person we are going to talk about in the paragraphs to come.
Ready? Already playing music? Here we go…
Among other things, Daniel Ek is a Swedish entrepreneur, best known for being the founder of Spotify, and for investing in other projects he believes in. Founding Spotify was, for him, the ultimate way to mix his two biggest passions in life: Music and Computer Sciences.
Daniel Ek reshaped the way in which we listen to music, making it more accessible and affordable for everyone. Now, artists who are just starting in the music business can reach a wider audience thanks to a project that bridges their creations to interested listeners.
But the life of this entrepreneur from Stockholm didn’t begin when he launched Spotify. Actually, he did quite a number of interesting things before that. In this article, we will share some aspects about the life of the new king of music you may not be aware of, and at the same time, we encourage you to nurture your kids with the right tools for them to reach their full potential and to accomplish every single one of their dreams. As you already know, everything is possible.
The life story of Spotify’s founder
Daniel Ek was a very smart child. He started his journey within programming when he was pretty young, and at the age of 14, he founded his first company. He created websites for companies and hired some of his classmates to work on both design and web development.
When he was only 16 years old, he tried to get a job at Google. Sadly for Google, he got rejected because he didn’t have a degree. After that rejection, he founded an advertising agency called Advertigo, a company that he sold when he was only 23 years old to an international and giant advertising company named Tradedoubler.
He became very good friends with Tradedoubler’s founder, so he convinced him to invest in another project he was thinking of building: Spotify.
The life after Spotify: Following your dreams
The main challenges Daniel Ek had when building Spotify were, among many others, getting the licenses for the songs. When they just started, and because of this problem, they had to limit themselves to get licenses only for Europe. Do you think your kids could learn how to avoid and anticipate problems? We believe that it is possible and might have helped Ek and his team prevent lots of headaches and attorneys.
His public launch occurred in 2008 when Spotify used to be only a system or app to listen to online music while on your laptop or desktop, and it was available only in Finland, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Norway, and Sweden.
Like many other startups, they used an amazing marketing strategy based on invitations. You could use Spotify for free only if you got an invitation from another registered user. Do you remember that WhatsApp also used the same marketing tactic when introducing their video calls?
It was only a year later when Daniel Ek and his team launched the mobile version of Spotify, including their ad-free song listening mode. Not long after that, they began with their world expansion.
Nowadays Spotify is available on every single continent and in almost every country. Actually, Spotify is a public company listed on the NYSE – something that Daniel Ek may not have pictured even once when he decided to mix his two biggest passions and dedicate his life to them.
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