Daniel Ek

3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 7, 2025 by John Coogan · said 28 times in 6 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Mar 7, 2025 positive
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Coogan: Spotify's early memo predicted 2025 user metrics within 10%
“They're like in the investment memo, it's like in 20, 25, we'll have three hundred million DAUs and they got it within like 10% or something. It was like a 20 year projection and they nailed it.”
John Coogan Mar 7, 2025 ▶ 21:49 "I Invest in People" – David Senra Talks Ramp, His Favorite Founders, and the Pursuit of Greatness.
Jun 21, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Coogan: Daniel Ek leads $600M round into Helsing at $12B valuation
“So yeah, Spotify founder Daniel Eck is leading a six hundred million dollar funding round into the German defense tech startup Helsing. This is the, this is kind of more of an annual equivalent over in Europe valuing that four year old company at twelve billio…”
John Coogan Jun 21, 2025 ▶ 53:39 Weekly Recap: Elon's Starship Explodes, OpenAI's Defense Contract, Nvidia's Robots, We Test Cluely
Jul 5, 2025
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Prince: Musicians make tens of millions fulfilling unmet Spotify search queries
“There are musicians who take this list and they actually write songs based on what people are looking for. And that, that they make tens of millions of dollars a year doing just exactly that.”
Matthew Prince Jul 5, 2025 ▶ 1:49:57 Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill
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