Daniel Ek (conceived 21 February 1983) is a Swedish very rich person business visionary and technologist. Ek is known for being the prime supporter and CEO of music web-based feature Spotify. 

Early life 

Ek experienced childhood in the Rågsved area of Stockholm, Sweden. 

Training 

Ek graduated secondary school from IT-Gymnasiet [sv] in Sundbyberg in 2002, and hence considered designing at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology prior to exiting to zero in on his IT vocation. 

Business profession 

Early endeavors 

Ek's initial introduction to the business world started at age 13 when he began a business making sites for customers from his home. He charged the primary customer $100 yet then charged the following customer who asked $200.

At last, he began charging $5,000 per site. To help extend the business, Ek enrolled understudies from his group to chip away at the sites from the school PC lab by paying off them with computer games.

His profit ultimately came to $50,000 each month and by age 18 he was dealing with a group of 25. Ek's folks began to see his income once he began getting back huge TVs. 

Ek later served in a senior job at Nordic sale organization Tradera which was procured by eBay in 2006. Ek likewise filled in as the CTO of program-based game and style local area Stardoll. Ek later began another organization Advertigo, an internet publicizing organization.

Advertigo offered to TradeDoubler in 2006. Subsequent to selling Advertigo, Ek momentarily turned into the CEO of μTorrent, working with μTorrent originator Ludvig Strigeus.

This finished when μTorrent was offered to BitTorrent on December 7 of 2006. Strigeus would later join Ek as a Spotify engineer. 

Spotify 

The offer of Advertigo just as his past work made Ek affluent enough that he chose to resign. Notwithstanding, following a couple of months, Ek understood that cash was good for nothing without a venture he was enthusiastic about which prompted the establishment of Spotify.

Ek initially had the thought for Spotify in 2002 when shared music administration Napster shut down and another unlawful site Kazaa dominated. Ek said he "understood that you can never enact away from theft.

Laws can help, however, it doesn't remove the issue. The best way to take care of the issue was to make assistance that was superior to robbery and simultaneously remunerates the music business – that gave us Spotify." 

Ek joined Spotify AB with Martin Lorentzon in Stockholm, Sweden in 2006. Lorentzon had recently worked at and helped to establish TradeDoubler which had gained Ek's past organization Advertigo.

In October 2008, the organization dispatched its legitimate music web-based feature Spotify. At first, Spotify ran on a shared circulation model, like uTorrent, however changed to a worker customer model in 2014. Ek fills in as CEO of Spotify.

In October 2015, Spotify Co-Founder Martin Lorentzon reported he would venture down as Chairman and Ek would be taking over close by his present job as CEO. As of April 2019, Spotify has 217 million dynamic clients and as of June 2017 had brought more than $2.5 billion up in adventure subsidizing. 

In 2017, Daniel Ek was named the most impressive individual in the music business by Billboard. 

Political positions 

In 2016, Ek and individual Spotify prime supporter Martin Lorentzon composed an open letter on the writing for a blog stage Medium to the Swedish government saying that if certain progressions to Swedish law with respect to lodging, tax assessment, and schooling are not made Spotify will be compelled to move from the country.

All the more explicitly, Ek claims that the high charges in Sweden on investment opportunities makes it hard to boost developers to work at new businesses when new businesses experience difficulty contending with bigger organizations on compensation. In addition, Ek claims Swedish allowing strategy is excessively prohibitive restricting the stockpile of moderate lodging. 

Individual life 

In 2016, Ek wedded Sofia Levander, his long-term accomplice, at Lake Como. At Ek's wedding, Bruno Mars was welcome to perform and Chris Rock administered; he welcomed various visitors, including Mark Zuckerberg. Ek and his better half have two youngsters together. 

Ek is a long lasting ally of Premier League club Arsenal, and, in April 2021, casually attested that he would be keen on buying the football club on the off chance that it were set available to be purchased.