Daniel Ek
26 statements across 5 episodes · 12 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 24, 2022 by Ben Gilbert · said 19 times in 7 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2023 12 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
2022 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
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Jan 24, 2022 positive
Taylor Swift Enjoys True Switching Costs Because She Is Irreplaceable
“I think definitionally she also has switching costs because the CEO of Spotify, when she was not on Spotify, was flying to the US to negotiate for her to get back on. Clearly You can't substitute a replacement and have equal value.”
May 18, 2023 neutral
May 18, 2023
Ek: Music merchandising differs from podcasts because songs are evaluated in 15 seconds
“Fundamentally how we merchandise content has to be very different for music than it is for an audio book or a podcast. And if you think about it, it's kind of logical, because in a song, it's a three minute commitment of your time. And you can actually probabl…”
May 18, 2023 positive
Ek: Long-form podcasts allow nuanced elaboration unlike 30-second journalist interviews
“Unlike you talking to a journalist, et cetera, it's truly a conversation one, and the second part is, There's enough time to actually elaborate on the thought and the idea. Whereas you have to be so succinct in how you express your idea and truly get it across…”
May 18, 2023 neutral
May 18, 2023
May 18, 2023 neutral
Ek: Pure content monetization is becoming auxiliary revenue for modern creators
“In addition to that, just monetizing the content in itself is probably becoming an auxiliary revenue sources around them. Three 60, very similar again to mom and pop shops, like where you could do live events. You could be doing merchandising. You could build …”
May 18, 2023 positive
Ek: Spotify aims to win creators via flexibility, not exclusivity
“Our goal is to be the best partner of creators. No, not the only partner, but just the best and win by basically not forcing the creator to do something, but just offering a really good way for creators to work low friction, but also lots of potential to custo…”
May 18, 2023
Ek: Early Spotify required eight word-of-mouth exposures per user signup
“In early Spotify we had eight people needed to have heard about Spotify before we were able to sign someone up. And so we realized that the geographical density in which that happened was actually a key sort of contributor and a timeline, so much of our early …”
May 18, 2023
May 18, 2023 positive
Ek: Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky dominates panel appearances and soundbite speaking
“And Brian Chesky is an example. He's like the master on it and he just switches it on and he's like so good. For some reason, he and I always ends up getting on the same panels and I'm like, it's game over even before it started.”
May 18, 2023 neutral
Ek: Launching internet startups globally on day one is 99.9% wrong
“We all believe that these like sort of internet companies that go global day one, that's like the right approach. I actually think. 99.9%. This is just untrue and false. The entrepreneurs have to revise. We all, all are benefited from constraining ourselves To…”
May 18, 2023 positive
May 18, 2023 neutral
May 18, 2023 neutral
Ek: Cross-platform attribution is a major creator economy problem
“I believe one of the biggest problems we have in this new creator economy is is the one of attribution, right? So, you know many creators like you have or try many of these different platforms and use it, but you know, and they can see on each individual platf…”
May 18, 2023
May 18, 2023 positive
Ek: Spotify critics mistake increased creator competition for a broken business model
“But there's also more competition, which is, I think when people are talking about Spotify and criticizing it, that's the part I think is the biggest misconception. Because they hear so many, many people who are trying and it doesn't work where they're not mak…”
May 18, 2023 positive
May 18, 2023 neutral
Ek: Every successful entrepreneur survives at least three near-death company moments
“And I think every really successful entrepreneur, in my opinion, has had at least three near death experiences with their company, right? Where you just feel like, I'm not sure whether this, Thing is gonna work, not work whether we're gonna be alive tomorrow o…”
Jun 13, 2023 neutral
Daniel Ek referred Khosrowshahi for the Uber CEO role
“And then I was at the Sun Valley Conference, the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference. And having drinks with Daniel Leck. And he's like, Dara, you know, did you get the call from a headhunter about the Uber job? I think you'd be perfect for the job. And I di…”
Dec 18, 2023 bullish
Gilbert: Munger and Huang were Acquired's biggest episodes ever
“Charlie and Margaret was by far our biggest episode ever. Jensen was bigger than any previous season episode. Dara and Daniel were right around the ballpark of what our season episodes were doing at that point in time when we had interviewed them.”
Sep 30, 2024 bullish
Sep 30, 2024 positive
Sep 30, 2024 positive
Daniel Ek: Mark Zuckerberg is the best learner I have ever seen
“Specifically from him you know, he's the, probably the best learner I've ever seen. You know, you can have a conversation with him about a topic, he may not know very much about it, and then the next time, he would know more than, I would say, most experts abo…”
Sep 30, 2024
Sep 30, 2024 positive
Ek: Social music works via shared co-listening, not passive friend-watching
“While I still think music is very social, I think what we got wrong in the product was this sort of notion that just seeing sort of what all of your friends are listening to may not be the sort of right social product. But if you instead sort of say like, I wa…”