Daniel Ek: belief

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…Was it worth it? Was it worth the trade? Obviously, I think it has been. It is an emotional roller coaster. You guys know this being an entrepreneur. It's not for the faint-hearted. I think every really successful entrepreneur, in my opinion, has had at least three near death experiences with their company, where you just feel like, I'm not sure whether this thing is going to work, not work, whether we're going to be alive tomorrow or not. I hate how the media portrays this and sometimes how entrepreneurs, we're supposed to be so big, where we understood everything from day one. It's certainly not been my journey. My journey was, I had a lot of luck. I worked insanely hard to get to even half of where we were today. It's been a true emotional roller coaster. It is true, what you said. But for me, had you told me how hard this would have been, I would have never done it. I'm happy I went through it, but I would have never done it. I wonder if you consider this one of those near death moments. But because we did the T Swift episode, and we talked a lot about it on the show, the week that 1989 dropped and Taylor pulled off the platform, do you consider that one of those moments?…

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