Daniel Ek
10 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 22, 2023 by Daniel Ek · across every show →
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Mar 22, 2023 neutral
Mar 22, 2023 negative
Mar 22, 2023 neutral
Ek: Quoted $5,000 to deter first web client without knowing HTML
“So about the third time the person asked, I decided to just take an absurd number that I could think of just to make sure I get rid of the person, so I said, well, sure, I'll do it, but I want 5000 dollars to do it, and the person said, done, and I'm like, oh,…”
Mar 22, 2023 bullish
Mar 22, 2023
Mar 22, 2023
Ek: Spotify targeted 200ms latency in 2006 based on perception research
“I read in this book that the human brain takes about 200 milliseconds to perceive anything, like at all, so I said to the engineering team, we gotta get this down to 200 milliseconds, and at that time, in 2006, that was considered crazy.”
Mar 22, 2023 positive
Ek: Spotify secured label licenses by guaranteeing one year of Swedish revenue
“So going from the beginning where I tried to get everything in all markets and realizing that that wasn't going to work, I decided to shift strategy and instead take a very narrow market where they lost most of it and said, look why, why don't I prove this to …”
Mar 22, 2023 neutral
Ek: Ran teenage web business by delegating HTML and Photoshop to classmates
“So I had like all the people in my class that were good at math. I taught them how to do HTML for me, and the people that were really good at design, I taught them Photoshop, so I was basically like running an illegal sweatshop. When I was like, 14.”
Mar 22, 2023 neutral
Hoffman: Most tech disruptors avoid partnering with the industries they disrupt
“Daniel is a disruptor, but most disruptors don't actually work with the industries they're disrupting. Most of these disruptors just reinvent, push things aside, and create their own closed loop. Uber Doesn't work with taxi companies. Airbnb doesn't work with …”