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Ek: US tech ecosystem outside Silicon Valley and Seattle lags Europe
“If you take Silicon Valley and Seattle out of it, the US actually would be worse than Europe if you took those two out of it.”
Ek predicts US-Europe tech funding gap will close in five years
“If you fast forward five years, there won't be much of a delta between the two, so that's not going to be the problem.”
Daniel Ek: Fully carbon-neutral cars will be doable starting in 2025
“This thing has the potential of really changing the whole car, so you'll be able to, maybe in twenty-twenty-five and onwards, be able to say that we have the first carbon-neutral car that we're creating, and that would have been unthinkable even 10 years ago, …”
Ek: Spotify aims to enable one million artists to earn a living
“I think the most important part of that mission is to try to see if we can have so that a million creative artists can live off of their art. That is a pretty ambitious target. I'm seriously set on trying to achieve that”
Ek: Prima Materia targets 20-to-30-year impact horizons
“We're trying to do things that can impact not in the next five or 10 years, but has a major impact in 20 or 30 years.”
Daniel Ek: Electric vehicles will trigger the fastest car upgrade cycle in 50 years
“I think car will have a huge inflection point in probably twenty-twenty-five and onwards where most, if not all, cars will be completely electric, right? My view is that that will Cause a much faster upgrade cycle than probably we've seen in the better part of…”