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Daniel Ek: belief

30 Sept 2024 Acquired Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg)

“The little told story is, if I remember this correctly, I think Mark, even pre-Facebook, was trying to do a music startup.”

— Daniel Ek

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Speaker
Daniel Ek
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
30 Sept 2024
Publisher
Acquired

Transcript context

…I appreciate that. That’s what great partnership is all about. David and I have one way of growing, which is to make a good episode and hope people tell their friends. Do you remember in the early days of Spotify when you figured out, oh, Facebook is going to be this unbelievable channel for us? Yeah. I think it starts like so many other things. I think Mark and I just struck this friendship. The little told story is, if I remember this correctly, I think Mark, even pre-Facebook, was trying to do a music startup. He was like, yeah, this feels like a difficult thing. Wirehog?…

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