Daniel Georg Ek (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈdɑ̂ːnɪɛl ˈjěːɔrj ěːk]; born 21 February 1983) is a Swedish businessman and technologist. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of music streaming service Spotify. [2]

Jan 8, 2024 · Daniel Ek, born on February 21, 1983, in Stockholm, Sweden, is best known as the visionary co-founder and CEO of Spotify, the world’s leading music streaming service. His journey from a Swedish teenager passionate about technology to a globally recognized entrepreneur reflects a blend of innovation, resilience, and a deep love for music.

Jan 23, 2025 · Daniel Ek (born February 21, 1983, Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish entrepreneur who in 2006 cofounded Spotify, an Internet music-streaming service that provides listeners with legal, ad-supported access to millions of songs, rejecting traditional models of downloading and eliminating per-song costs.

4 days ago · Stockholm-born Daniel Ek is the cofounder and CEO of streaming music service Spotify. The company has more than 381 million users, 172 million of whom are paying subscribers....

3 days ago · “I am very excited about 2025 and feel really good about where we are as both a product and as a business,” said Daniel Ek, Spotify Founder & CEO. “ We will continue to place bets that will drive long term impact, increasing our speed while maintaining the levels of efficiency we achieved last year.

Apr 16, 2021 · Spotify Co-Founder and CEO Daniel Ek is a textbook example of the startup mavericks propelling their companies to billion-dollar valuations. This is how he did it.

Mar 29, 2024 · Born in 1983 in Stockholm, Sweden, Daniel Ek is widely recognized for co-founding Spotify, the world's leading music streaming service. From an early age, Daniel Ek showed both talent and drive for entrepreneurship, starting his first business at 13 by building websites for small companies.

After almost two decades of decline, music industry revenues are finally starting to recover again and a lot of the credit goes to one guy: Daniel Ek, Founder of Spotify. Ironically, Spotify was backed by the guy who helped enable all that piracy to begin with: Napster’s Sean Parker.

Swedish billionaire Ek co-founded Spotify alongside Martin Lorentzon in 2006, launching the streaming platform as a fully-licensed service in October 2008 in Europe. Since then, over the course of 14+ years of existence, Spotify hasn’t turned an annual profit at any stage in its history.

Mar 8, 2023 · Spotify CEO Daniel Ek gave an interview after the streaming company's Stream On event about the app redesign and what's new for artists and fans.