Spotify’s “year of monetization” hasn’t been great for customer wallets, but it’s been very good for the company’s stock—and CEO Daniel Ek’s personal wealth.
Daniel Ek. In 2014, Ek looked like a marked man. That was the year pop star Taylor Swift pulled her music from the streaming service over concerns about royalties, sparking furious discussion ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Daniel Ek’s body-scanning start-up Neko Health has raised $260mn in new capital to fuel expansion of its ...
Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek reportedly cashed out close to $100m in company stock in December 2024, per Music Business Worldwide. According to SEC filings published at the end of the year, Ek ...
Spotify's CEO, Daniel Ek, wants his company to be the Nike of audio. The best way to achieve that: experimentation. Speaking on the podcast "Invest like the best," hosted by Patrick O'Shaughnessy ...
CEO Daniel Ek said in a blog post that the company had made a "difficult but necessary decision" to cut some roles. Ek said he took full responsibility for the layoffs. "Over the next several ...
Music streaming platform Spotify founder Daniel Ek has launched a new startup called Neko Health based in Sweden, which specialises in providing body scans powered by artificial intelligence (AI).