Ek: Every successful entrepreneur survives at least three near-death company moments
Daniel Ek · Spotify CEO Daniel Ek · Acquired · May 18, 2023 · at 37:22
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek discusses the psychological stress of entrepreneurship and how media mythologizes startup success.
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“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 or not, and I kind of hate how media portrays this, and sometimes how entrepreneurs, we're supposed to be sort of like, we're so big, we're, like, we understood everything from day one.”
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