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Daniel Ek

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Joe Rogan

“I love seeing people like yourself, David Senra, Taylor Swift, Joe Rogan, or whoever, that are really deep on whatever they're passionate about.”

Acquired · 18 May 2023

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David Senra

“I love seeing people like yourself, David Senra, Taylor Swift, Joe Rogan, or whoever, that are really deep on whatever they're passionate about.”

Acquired · 18 May 2023

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Taylor Swift

“I love seeing people like yourself, David Senra, Taylor Swift, Joe Rogan, or whoever, that are really deep on whatever they're passionate about.”

Acquired · 18 May 2023

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04 / evaluation

Instead of taking my phone or your phone, we could all be working together on something. But what we saw during the pandemic, and that’s where Jam started, was we started seeing that people were using this to stay connected as well by having this shared consistent music listening where we’re all listening to the same thing at the same time, even though we were apart.

“Instead of taking my phone or your phone, we could all be working together on something. But what we saw during the pandemic, and that’s where Jam started, was we started seeing that people were using this to stay connected as well by having this shared consistent music listening where we’re all listening to the same thing at the same time, even though we were apart.”
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Daniel Ek
Publisher
Acquired

05 / preference

I would’ve said to you as well, people probably mostly why would you want to watch any video, but I think younger consumers, especially, don’t know what the difference is.

“I would’ve said to you as well, people probably mostly why would you want to watch any video, but I think younger consumers, especially, don’t know what the difference is.”
Speaker
Daniel Ek
Publisher
Acquired

11 / uncertainty

The really cool thing is, you're able to take artists that otherwise, perhaps, may not even have been able to be professional, and now they have a global audience. I don't know how to express it other than that they have some God-given talent.

“The really cool thing is, you're able to take artists that otherwise, perhaps, may not even have been able to be professional, and now they have a global audience. I don't know how to express it other than that they have some God-given talent.”
Speaker
Daniel Ek
Publisher
Acquired

15 / belief

I would say, the probably other thing that's been hugely important and that I wish more people talked about, is there are not many of us, but there are a few companies like Spotify, which, in a way, has been heavily influenced by Silicon Valley, but we are not Silicon Valley first.

“I would say, the probably other thing that's been hugely important and that I wish more people talked about, is there are not many of us, but there are a few companies like Spotify, which, in a way, has been heavily influenced by Silicon Valley, but we are not Silicon Valley first.”
Speaker
Daniel Ek
Publisher
Acquired

16 / belief

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 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.”
Speaker
Daniel Ek
Publisher
Acquired

17 / belief

I feel like so much has just ended up being, hey, do I have to pay in order to reach my audience now, that kind of switcheroo? But I think the more interesting one was, well, forget about if it's paid or not, but just increasing the costs of spam, but also increasing the quality of verification and being able to truly understand what's what in the end.

“I feel like so much has just ended up being, hey, do I have to pay in order to reach my audience now, that kind of switcheroo? But I think the more interesting one was, well, forget about if it's paid or not, but just increasing the costs of spam, but also increasing the quality of verification and being able to truly understand what's what in the end.”
Speaker
Daniel Ek
Publisher
Acquired

18 / belief

I think we're only in the beginning, obviously. That's hugely exciting for creators like yourself, but it's also scary because it's totally possible for us to make an entire episode where we're seeing totally different things than what we're seeing now.

“I think we're only in the beginning, obviously. That's hugely exciting for creators like yourself, but it's also scary because it's totally possible for us to make an entire episode where we're seeing totally different things than what we're seeing now.”
Speaker
Daniel Ek
Publisher
Acquired

19 / belief

If you think about right now, obviously AI will come in and it will be massive. But I think at one point in time, Facebook (or now Meta) had over 100,000 content moderators actually working for them.

“If you think about right now, obviously AI will come in and it will be massive. But I think at one point in time, Facebook (or now Meta) had over 100,000 content moderators actually working for them.”
Speaker
Daniel Ek
Publisher
Acquired

25 / evaluation

When people are talking about Spotify and criticizing it, that's the part is the biggest misconception because they hear so many, many people who are trying, and it doesn't work where they're not making a lot of money from it.

“When people are talking about Spotify and criticizing it, that's the part is the biggest misconception because they hear so many, many people who are trying, and it doesn't work where they're not making a lot of money from it.”
Speaker
Daniel Ek
Publisher
Acquired

27 / evaluation

We knew that because I'd seen enough of these, obviously, platforms. But it is important because if you think about it from a P&L, on the surface of this, these models are great because of very high gross margins, and so on and so forth.

“We knew that because I'd seen enough of these, obviously, platforms. But it is important because if you think about it from a P&L, on the surface of this, these models are great because of very high gross margins, and so on and so forth.”
Speaker
Daniel Ek
Publisher
Acquired

29 / preference

I believe that for us on why we care about this and certainly why we designed the home feed the way we did, is because fundamentally how we merchandise content has to be very different for music than it is for an audiobook or a podcast.

“I believe that for us on why we care about this and certainly why we designed the home feed the way we did, is because fundamentally how we merchandise content has to be very different for music than it is for an audiobook or a podcast.”
Speaker
Daniel Ek
Publisher
Acquired

30 / prediction

What I believe at the time of Facebook's IPO, it was something like the cost for Facebook to onboard a user was a dollar a user or something like that in hardware cost and all that stuff, basically, to have lifetime value of a customer.

“What I believe at the time of Facebook's IPO, it was something like the cost for Facebook to onboard a user was a dollar a user or something like that in hardware cost and all that stuff, basically, to have lifetime value of a customer.”
Speaker
Daniel Ek
Publisher
Acquired
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