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Building Defense Technologies to Protect Democracies | Torsten Reil, Helsing
- ▶ 4:08 David Senra I want to go back to the conversation we had a few years ago when we were having a dinner at Daniel X house.
- ▶ 11:52 Torsten Reil Um, you know, put in a hundred million euros of his own money very early on, and that allowed us to, to scare the company faster than otherwise. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:50 Torsten Reil It's, it's, it's, it's very hard to kind of find an exact number, but Daniel had the same level of conviction that, um, Gumbert Niklas and I had, um, and, and I think is a similar conviction person. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:08 David Senra Me and Daniel talked about this, this, this idea of like how many prime movers are there in the world?
- ▶ 27:02 Torsten Reil And so we, we have to now kind of think through things either from first principles or by, you know, working with people who have already built big companies like, like Daniel.
- ▶ 40:47 David Senra Uh, something that I asked Daniel about, and he said, he's like, he's a German building a defense company in a country whose entire post-war identity was never again.
- ▶ 1:00:47 Torsten Reil So Daniel also gets involved in our hiring.
Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible
- ▶ 21:47 David Senra Uh, my friend, Daniel X says this about me.
Excellence Is the Capacity To Take Pain | Travis Kalanick, Founder of Uber
- ▶ 57:31 David Senra I was texting Daniel Ek about, uh, that I was going to see you
- ▶ 1:40:15 David Senra One of the things that I was talking to Daniel Eck about you that he finds most fascinating about you is your propensity to build a ton of separate companies inside of one company.
Founder of CAA Michael Ovitz: "I Just Knew I Was Going to Outwork Every One of Them"
- ▶ 53:33 Michael Ovitz I think the, um, advent of Daniel X Spotify, which he developed in a garage in Sweden, in Stockholm, is a game changer, and I think 2 times in the scene
Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka
- ▶ 10:18 David Senra This is really special to me right now because, um, have you spent any time with Daniel Ek in person? 2 times in the scene
DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Control
- ▶ 1:06:07 David Senra Daniel, Gustav, all the top people there, Alex, everybody else, Roman.
The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu
- ▶ 53:21 Scott Wu I love the quote from, from Daniel Ek in Spotify, right?
- ▶ 55:38 David Senra Where Daniel was going to die if he was not successful. 2 times in the scene
The Company Apple Couldn't Kill | Spotify Co-CEO Gustav Söderström
- ▶ 0:03 David Senra So I text Daniel Ek this morning. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:55 Gustav Söderström So I actually think organizations are quite based on personalities and Daniel has a very specific personality, I think. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:16 David Senra Audio books on Audible, and I remember asking Dan, I was like, how the hell, like, why did no one think, like, oh, I like this book, just press play and it goes, instead of like a five minute, like Audible.
- ▶ 17:17 David Senra And I feel, I don't know if you guys do this internally, but I've talked to, you know, Alex and Daniel and you a bunch.
- ▶ 19:35 David Senra It was me, you, Daniel, and Pia, who works at Prima Materia. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:48 David Senra This is what me and Daniel were talking about earlier.
- ▶ 39:56 David Senra And then you interview the people that were there at the time, like Sean Parker's in there, Daniel X there, people that played a role, even if they only played a role for a few years.
- ▶ 52:15 David Senra He's a, I mean, dude, to this day, even though he's retired, I mean, me and Daniel talk about this all the time, because it's just, it's just hilarious, because they're obviously close friends, uh, too.
- ▶ 1:02:56 David Senra One of my favorite things, I think Daniel said it on this podcast last year, where, you know, I'm always curious when I get to meet people 4 times in the scene
The Man Behind Grand Theft Auto 6: Strauss Zelnick
- ▶ 1:31:13 David Senra One size doesn't fit all that Daniel Ek, the founder of Spotify and I are working on this project to try to outline all the different founder archetypes.
Evan Spiegel, Snapchat: Building a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 1:19:47 David Senra I spend a lot of time with the Spotify team, Daniel, Gustaf, Alex, the top three, three, three people there, and they just have this like soul in the game, and they're really trying to build an app.
- ▶ 1:48:08 David Senra The first one was a Daniel Ek of Spotify. 2 times in the scene
Tony Xu of DoorDash: Surviving 1,000 Days of Startup Hell
- ▶ 22:38 David Senra And, uh, Daniel Ek was very kind to host, uh, me and like a handful of European founders. 3 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen: The World Is More Malleable Than You Think
- ▶ 4:54 David Senra Daniel Ek has the greatest way to put this, like, he thinks the best entrepreneurs are not optimizing for happiness, they're optimizing for impact. 2 times in the scene
Brian Armstrong: When Washington Tried to Kill Coinbase
- ▶ 59:24 David Senra Well, I'm curious, like, have you found any other, um, I talked to my friend Kareem, founder of Ramp about this, Daniel, founder of Spotify. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:48 David Senra I'll share my five favorite quotes from the Daniel Eck episode, along with some of the photos with Daniel and I. 2 times in the scene
Jimmy Iovine: Building Interscope Records & Beats by Dre
- ▶ 3:44 Jimmy Iovine Daniel, who is extraordinary, had the, the wherewithal and the ability to get the licenses from a record business that
- ▶ 36:47 David Senra Ok, hold on, I want to pause here, because I text Daniel Ek, right, founder of Spotify, and I was like, tell me, like, give me some ideas, because he's known you forever. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:06:38 David Senra And this started with, uh, when I sent this clip, when you're on Ari Emanuel's podcast, and at the end, I sent the clip to Daniel Ek, and me and him were just laughing about it because you're like, the production, he goes, this is Ari's…
Tobi Lütke: 21 Years of Building Shopify
- ▶ 5:03 David Senra This is one of the things Daniel Eck told me about you.
- ▶ 1:19:28 David Senra One of the things that Daniel from, from Spotify, I almost said Shopify, now for him, David from Spotify told him, he's like, you should ask him, like, what were some of the advantages of starting with Silicon Valley?
- ▶ 1:33:36 David Senra There's been a few previous guests on the show, Brad Jacobs, John Mackie, uh, Daniel Ek, obviously running public companies.
- ▶ 1:42:11 David Senra Uh, Daniel from Spotify and Kareem from ramp.
John Mackey: The Dropout Who Changed How America Eats
- ▶ 1:20:09 David Senra Did you listen to the Daniel Ek episode? 7 times in the scene
My Conversation With Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Founder of Colossus & Positive Sum | David Senra
- ▶ 32:30 David Senra We didn't have, me and you had this dinner with Daniel Ek in New York.
- ▶ 57:42 Patrick O'Shaughnessy Uh, if you take the ideas that I got from Daniel, who you mentioned before at Spotify about how to build software, uh, from Brett Victor, who I mentioned before about this principle for great software and what it looks like, and from a guy… 2 times in the scene
James Dyson: 5,127 Prototypes
- ▶ 12:56 David Senra My friend Daniel Eck, the founder of Spotify, we had a conversation about this where he actually thinks naivete is like one of the greatest assets a young entrepreneur or an inventor can have, because he's like, if I knew how difficult it…
How Todd Graves Built Raising Cane's
- ▶ 1:16:22 David Senra In my conversation with Daniel Ek on this podcast, he said one of the most important ideas I've ever heard. 2 times in the scene
How Brad Jacobs Built 8 Billion-Dollar Companies
- ▶ 51:11 David Senra What is, like, let me back up before I ask you a question, because I've been having long conversations with Daniel Eck, the founder of Spotify, who's become a good friend, and that's his whole thing, where he, like, we actually might be…
Michael Dell, Dell Technologies | David Senra
- ▶ 56:18 David Senra On the last episode during my conversation with Daniel Ek, he said one of the most important ideas that I've heard. 2 times in the scene