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Daniel Ek: commitment

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

“Then we struck a friendship and we started jamming on various ideas around how to make music more social.”

— Daniel Ek

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

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…Do you remember how you got introduced? Because Spotify was not like Spotify the way it is today, a pillar of the world. I got introduced to Mark through Sean Parker. Sean said to Zuck, like, hey, you got to meet this entrepreneur from Sweden. I remember Zuck at the time was living in a very small house and we went for a barbecue at his house. This is probably, I don’t know, 2008 or 2009, one of those things. Then we struck a friendship and we started jamming on various ideas around how to make music more social. And you weren’t even live in the US yet, I don’t think, or you were just—…

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