Podcast appearances and mentions of andreas ehn

All the way from Sweden, our guest this week on #OTPBD is the first employee and former CTO of Spotify, Andreas Ehn! Whilst Andreas’ early education and career path started off in tech and engineering, he had always had an interest in business and entrepreneurship, which has made for an exciting and impressive career so far.Spotify has become one of the most popular music-streaming platforms of all time with over 200 million users to date. In Spotify’s formative years, Andreas brought together a world class technical team that designed and built the music-service product, however, the original genesis of this widely used app is an interesting startup story (and has much respect to timing). In a large part, illegal file-sharing company Pirate Bay (also Swedish born) helped paved a path for Spotify’s success in the music industry. Record labels were facing a time where piracy was at large more than ever, and at the time, Spotify’s music solution was the most promising to labels, and cheap and easily accessible to consumers.Post-Spotify, Andreas then co-founded and was CTO of his own business in 2011, Wrapp, a purchases and customer loyalty app which early this year was acquired by Meniga. Later on, he then became an active investor, with 15 investments typically early-stage. Andreas is currently a global Venture Partner with Antler, a global startup generator and early-stage VC that works by selecting talented individuals looking to start a business, connecting them with the right co-founder as well as a network of advisors worldwide.We’re thrilled to have Andreas on #OTPBD and hope you enjoy listening to this Ep!

Andreas Ehn, current partner of Approach and former CTO of Spotify, joined us in a conversation on technology and where we are heading in four major areas: artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and cryptocurrency, autonomous vehicles and virtual & augmented reality.

I avsnitt 6 av Start Intervjuar vi Andreas Ehn, första anställd och CTO på Spotify, som delar med sig om sina insikter om hur teknikorganisationen i ett startup ser ut, vad en CTO faktiskt gör, och vad rollen innebär. Relevanta länkar: @ehn Andreas & Lisa around the world: approach.world Stardoll: www.stardoll.com Wrapp: wrapp.com

Andreas Ehn och Lisa Enckell reser tillsammans med sin lilla son William världen över för att investera i start ups. Deras mål är 10 utvecklingsländer på 5 år. Andreas har en bakgrund inom Spotify och Wrapp och Lisa har en lång bakgrund inom PR och marknadsföring. Nu har dom varit Indonesien och Singapore, hör dom berätta om när dom fick muta sig genom tullen, sina investeringar och hur man gör för att sluta drömma och faktiskt komma iväg. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.