Category archives: Daniel Ek

Daniel Ek poured €100m into Helsing AI last year. The startup just partnered with a European arms manufacturer

Daniel Ek-backed company strikes strategic partnership with Germany-based automotive and arms manufacturer, Rheinmetall
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Spotify added 3m new creators to its platform last year… and 4 other things we learned from the firm’s Q4 earnings call.

The Spotify founder gave some revelatory comments on Spotify’s earnings call – especially around the creator economy
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Spotify, worth $67bn, has seen its share price TREBLE in 10 months. Should Daniel Ek pay artists a ‘bonus’ to say thank you?

Spotify is still loss-making, but its market cap is so massive… should it pay a ‘phantom dividend’ to popular artists in need?
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Loss-making Spotify will continue to put growth ahead of profit for ‘next few years’

Daniel Ek: “Eventually we will get to more of a point of maturity where we’ll focus more on profit over growth, but for the next few years it’s going to be predominantly growth for us.”
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