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Spotify ist die größte Streaming-Plattform für Musik und Podcasting weltweit - eine Plattform, die Daniel Ek und Martin Lorentzon 2006 in Schweden gegründet haben. Es ist eines der wenigen europäischen Technologieunternehmen, das weltweit ganz vorne mitspielt und 2024 erstmals schwarze Zahlen veröffentlicht hat. Der Schweizer Yves Brunschwiler, seit mehr als zwei Jahren Head of Sales für Central Europe mit Sitz in Deutschland, erzählt im Interview, wie Spotify diesen Erfolg geschafft hat. "Spotify hatte und wird immer die User Experience im Fokus haben", betont er im Podcast mit dem Marketing Club Österreich (MCÖ). Im Zentrum der Plattform, die aktuell etwa 626 Millionen User verzeichnet, mehr als ein Drittel davon sind zahlende Premiumnutzer, bleibt Audio. "Musik steht im Zentrum. Durch erfolgreiche Zukäufe und interne Weiterentwicklung ist nun auch Podcasting und der Markt der Audiobooks Teil unseres Core Businesses", so Brunschwiler. Als Head of Sales gibt Brunschwiler Einblick in die Entwicklung im Abonnenten-, Marketing- und Sales-Geschäft der Plattform, spricht über kreative Ad-Produkte und verrät Tipps und Tricks für User, um neue Musik zu entdecken, die dem eigenen Geschmack entspricht. Auch über Herausforderungen, den Hype rund um Podcasting, die Einbindung von Video und die Kritik an Spotify hat Birgit Schaller, MCÖ-Podcasterin und Gründerin der Contentagentur BiSness, mit Yves Brunschwiler gesprochen. Gern reinhören!
¿Sabías que Spotify nació en respuesta a la era de la piratería musical?En este video te contamos cómo dos jóvenes que estaban buscando su propósito después de experimentar una vida de millonarios llena de vacíos emocionales, Daniel Ek y Martin Lorentzon, crearon Spotify con una misión: ofrecer una alternativa legal y accesible en un momento donde la piratería dominaba la música digital.Vamos a entender su historia de origen, explorando cómo Spotify rompió barreras tecnológicas, ganó la batalla contra las descargas ilegales y revolucionó la industria musical, mientras sobrevivía a la batalla contra Apple y las disqueras. Además, veremos cómo pasó de ser un pequeño proyecto a convertirse en el gigante de streaming que todos conocemos hoy.Si te intriga saber cómo Spotify cambió para siempre la forma en que escuchamos música y por qué es tan influyente, ¡este video es para ti!
Live from Alabama's Anti-ESG unscented Rose Garden, it's an all-new terrific Tuesday edition of Business Pants. Joined by Analyst-Hole Matt Moscardi! In today's ESG-sized onesie called October 8, 2024: BIZ NUGGETS!Our show today is being sponsored by Free Float Analytics, the only platform measuring board power, connections, and performance for FREE. DAMION1In our 'Because it's 2024 and "Hey, why don't you just save on gas and buy a Chevy Bolt" is just too damn complicated' headline of the week. Uber to launch AI assistant powered by OpenAI's GPT-4o to help drivers go electric In our 'Spotify co-founders Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon announce that shareholders ARE children and that's why they own about 25% of actual shares but about 75% of voting power' headline of the week. Spotify's HR chief says remote staff aren't ‘children' as company reaffirms work-from-anywhere policyIn our 'Boeing wishes it had Qantas's problems' headline of the week. 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Welcome to episode 145 of Sports Management Podcast. Today's guest is Houman Ashrafzadeh – the founder of Padium a “London's premium padel club, in the heart of Canary Wharf”. Houman is a serial entrepreneur who in addition to Padium also has founded Urban Greens Salad bar, Coffydoor and 360 Capital. His latest venture, Padium, is backed by Spotify co-founder Martin Lorentzon, who is a big padel enthusiast as well. In this episode we spoke about: The padel landscape in the UK Learnings from “The Swedish Model” Challenges from starting a restaurant just before covid Why he chose Canary Wharf as the location for Padium What Houman has learned from Spotify co-founder Martin Lorentzon And much more! Timestamps: 00:00 Intro00:21: Padium in Canary Wharf 06:35: Learnings from "The Swedish Model" 13:49: Backed by Spotify Co-Founder Martin Lorentzon 15:28: Future Plans for Padium 25:05: Padium Brand 26:09: Advice for Aspiring Entrepreneurs 31:07: Outro _____________________________________________________________ Houman's Channels: https://www.linkedin.com/in/houmanashrafzadeh/ https://www.instagram.com/houman.ash/?hl=en Padium's Channels: https://www.padium.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/padium/ https://www.facebook.com/padiumuk https://www.instagram.com/padiumuk/?hl=en _____________________________________________________________ Follow Sports Management Podcast on social media Instagram Twitter LinkedIn YouTube Sign up for the newsletter! www.sportsmanagementpodcast.com
The latest earnings report from Spotify provides a clear snapshot of the company's performance in 2023. During the earnings call on Tuesday, February 6th, 2024, CEO Daniel Ek articulated his optimism about the company's future while reflecting on its past successes. Ek noted that Spotify had made strides in important areas, including monthly active users (MAUs), subscriber counts, and revenue growth. Reinforcing this positive trend, he indicated that efficiency measures implemented across different business aspects, including podcasting, employee management, and cloud costs, have resulted in smaller cost structures. He also expressed confidence in the continuation of these trends in 2024. A review of Spotify's recent business activities suggests alignment with the emphasized themes from the earnings call- user engagement, personalization, and technological innovation. The company's investment in product innovation reflects a consistent strategic direction. The usage of AI-powered features for enhancing user experience and the development of a new subscription tier for improved audio quality and personalized playlist creation stand as influential factors corroborating Spotify's commitment to technological evolution and user satisfaction. Moreover, Ek's statement on the earnings call further underlines Spotify's ongoing resource optimization efforts, intending not to compromise on growth but rather to solve substantial consumer and creator-related problems. While diversification is not one of their stated strategies, the company's co-founder Martin Lorentzon's investment in sports venture Padium could suggest an interest in this direction. On a cautionary note, the company acknowledges potential risks associated with the integration of advanced technologies such as AI. The company's business activities offer suitable opportunities for case studies that could provide an in-depth understanding of Spotify's business operation and its relation to the latest earnings call's themes. These may include scrutinizing AI implementation challenges, assessing new monetization strategies like the new subscription tier, and exploring AI's impact on listener experience. In conclusion, Spotify demonstrated robust performance in 2023, which, according to the company's call, resulted from strategic measures to accelerate user engagement, technological innovation, and personalization. Anticipated growth in 2024, based on these strategies and the achieved efficiencies, looks plausible, albeit conditional on the company's ability to maintain the operational momentum and address emerging challenges, particularly those associated with AI implementation. SPOT Company info: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SPOT/profile For more PSFK research : www.psfk.com This email has been published and shared for the purpose of business research and is not intended as investment advice.
How to go from the Swedish housing projects to billionaire CEO of Spotify. In this new episode Steven sits down with the co-founder and CEO of Spotify, Daniel Ek. Daniel Ek is a Swedish entrepreneur who started his first company in 1997 at just 14 years old. He eventually dropped out of college and founded the online marketing firm, Advertigo, which he sold in 2006 to the Swedish company Tradedoubler at 23 years old. Coming out of early retirement, Daniel founded Spotify alongside Martin Lorentzon in 2006. In this conversation Daniel and Steven discuss topics, such as: His childhood in a single parent household The importance of his mother in his success Growing up in the Swedish projects Coming from a musical family Overcoming being an introvert His ability to adapt to changing situations Not fitting in when he was growing up How his difference helped in his later success Starting his first company while at school How people worry more about failing then succeeding Why effort can't always beat talent People not understanding what it's actually like to be a billionaire How spare time is now his most important currency Why the idea of success through University is outdated What football taught him about business Retiring at 23 years old Why he found being rich and successful depressing How the idea of ‘why-not' helped to create Spotify Realising that he had approached his career in the wrong way How Spotify nearly collapsed 4 times The importance of culture in organisations Why you should take the risk of betting on yourself Follow Daniel: Twitter: https://bit.ly/465g8WM Watch the episodes on Youtube - https://g2ul0.app.link/3kxINCANKsb My new book! 'The 33 Laws Of Business & Life' is out now: https://smarturl.it/DOACbook Follow me: Instagram: http://bit.ly/3nIkGAZ Twitter:http://bit.ly/3ztHuHm Linkedin: https://bit.ly/41Fl95Q Telegram: http://bit.ly/3nJYxST Sponsors: Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/doac Huel: https://g2ul0.app.link/G4RjcdKNKsb Shopify: https://shopify.com/bartlett Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this week's edition of Talking Tech, Mark talks about the world's biggest audio streaming app, Spotify. It's been reported that the Swedish company will be increasing their monthly ad-free subscription service by an extra £1 per month in the UK, as well as many other countries.
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In der Rubrik “Investments & Exits” begrüßen wir heute Otto Birnbaum, General Partner von Revent. Otto hat den neuen Fonds von BackingMinds in Höhe von 50 Millionen Euro kommentiert: Der neue Fonds will nach Unternehmen mit hohem Potenzial außerhalb der europäischen Hauptstädte und nach Unternehmern suchen, die von den traditionellen Investoren oft übersehen werden. Die Investitionsspanne des Fonds liegt zwischen 500.000 und 3.000.000 Euro für Erstinvestitionen und erstreckt sich auf ganz Europa.Zu den Kapitalgebern gehören der Vorstandsvorsitzende von Supercell, Ilkka Paananen, die Familie Persson, der das Einzelhandelsunternehmen H&M gehört, und der Mitbegründer von Spotify, Martin Lorentzon. Zu den weiteren Investoren gehören die Gründer der Private-Equity-Firmen EQT und Nordic Capital sowie Thomas Hartwig, der Mitbegründer von King - dem Unternehmen hinter Candy Crush Saga - ist. Auch die Gründer des Softwareunternehmens Sinch, Robert Gerstmann und Kristian Mannik, sowie die Familie Olsson, die hinter der Unternehmensgruppe Stena steht, zu der auch die Fährgesellschaft gehört.
Fight for the Future's Director, Evan Greer, and Campaigns and Communications Director, Lia Holland, are both digital rights activists who have been active in the music industry. Based on their experience they talk about the need to rethink how artists can be fairly remunerated and the disconnect between the interest of big corporate entities, claiming to speak on behalf of artists, versus the actual needs of creators, especially those that have been marginalized by the music industry. They warn against the excesses from corporations and governments in trying to enforce copyright through massive and automated Internet censorship. Key Takeaways: 0:00 Intro 2:20 Evan talks about their background as a traveling musician, and how a show in Prague brought them to where they are today with Fight For the Future 7:23 Lia goes into her life as a writer, and the struggle her family faced when the 2008 financial crisis and how she had to change her career mindset 14:09 Evan talks about Fight for the Future and the background of the organization and what exactly they fight for 17:41 Lia talks about some of the campaigns that Fight For the Future is currently working on and being recognized for 24:14 Lia describes content monopolies and the major companies and streaming services and the deep flaws they possess 26:51 Evan describes the changes in copyright over the years as we move into a more analog world rather than burning CD's and copying tapes 28:52 Evan talks about how artists truly aren't getting revenue from streaming, but instead the record labels 31:25 Lia describes how the focus in the industry is mostly all geared towards back catalogs now 38:01 Evan dives into the concept of centralization and how it's the main root of the harm in the industry 45:11 Lia goes more into current campaigns and what they are doing to truly fight back to save our future 49:15 Evan explains how people need to get behind this movement of fighting for the future of the internet as much as they do for other social causes Resources Mentioned: Spotify - Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming and media services provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. It is the world's largest music streaming service providers, with over 365 million monthly active users, including 165 million paying subscribers, as of June 2021. Apple Music - Apple Music is a music and video streaming service developed by Apple Inc. Users select music to stream to their device on-demand, or they can listen to existing playlists. Amazon Music - Amazon Music is a music streaming platform and online music store operated by Amazon. Launched in public beta on September 25, 2007, in January 2008 it became the first music store to sell music without digital rights management from the four major music labels, as well as many independents. Myspace - Myspace is an American social networking service. From 2005 to early 2009, it was the largest social networking site in the world. Myspace was acquired by News Corporation in July 2005 for $580 million, and in June 2006 surpassed Yahoo! and Google to become the most visited website in the United States. Napster - Napster is a set of three music-focused online services. It was founded in 1999 as a pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing Internet software that emphasized sharing digital audio files, typically audio songs, encoded in MP3 format. RIAA - The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States. Its members consist of record labels and distributors, which RIAA says "create, manufacture, and/or distribute approximately 85% of all legally sold recorded music in the United States" Guests Social Media Links: Website: fightforthefuture.org Website: endcreativemonopolies.org Evan Twitter: https://twitter.com/evan_greer Lia Twitter: https://twitter.com/liaholland FFTF Twitter: https://twitter.com/FightForTheFtr
I veckans avsnitt gästas vi av David Zaudy och Simon Kjellström som tillsammans grundat investmentbolaget Cervantes Capital där Martin Lorentzon är största aktieägare. Förvaltarduon berättar i podden att de valt att fokusera på små och medelstora svenska bolag eftersom de anser att den sektorn är underanalyserad och det är där Zaudy och Kjellström har sin edge. Långsiktighet, värdering och avkastning på kapital är viktiga parametrar för förvaltarna och vi går igenom exemplen Hexatronic, Scandi Standard, Christian Berner och Micro Systemation som är bolag de investerat i. ”Informationen i denna podd ska inte ses som investeringsråd. Tänk på att placeringar i värdepapper alltid medför en risk. Historisk avkastning är ingen garanti för framtida avkastning. De pengar som placeras i värdepapper kan både öka och minska i värde och det är inte säkert att du får tillbaka hela det insatta kapitalet. Det är viktigt att fortlöpande bevaka sitt innehav och vid behov ta initiativ till åtgärder för att minska risken för förlust.” http://www.paretosec.com/download/compliance/disclaimer.pdf
Swedish audio streaming and media services provider, founded in 2006 by Daniel Ek. Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with offices in 17 different countries around the world. It is one of the world's largest music streaming service providers, with over 356 million monthly active users, including 158 million paying subscribers, as of March 2021.
Ranní brífink Honzy Hrušovského: Před 15 lety se zásadně začal měnit hudební průmysl. Tenkrát o tom ale zdaleka ještě nikdo netušil. Švédové Daniel Ek a Martin Lorentzon tehdy založili společnost Spotify, o dva roky později uvedli na trh stejnojmennou službu se streamovanou hudbou. S publicistou Honzou Vedralem jsme probrali, jak Spotify dokázalo probrat skomírající trh s hudbou. S ředitelem komerčního úseku fotbalové Sparty Praha jsme řešili chystanou a rychle zrušenou superligu. Elitní kluby zjistily, že tradici si za peníze jen tak nekoupí a také zásadně podcenily komunikaci.
Ranní brífink Honzy Hrušovského: Před 15 lety se zásadně začal měnit hudební průmysl. Tenkrát o tom ale zdaleka ještě nikdo netušil. Švédové Daniel Ek a Martin Lorentzon tehdy založili společnost Spotify, o dva roky později uvedli na trh stejnojmennou službu se streamovanou hudbou. S publicistou Honzou Vedralem jsme probrali, jak Spotify dokázalo probrat skomírající trh s hudbou. S ředitelem komerčního úseku fotbalové Sparty Praha jsme řešili chystanou a rychle zrušenou superligu. Elitní kluby zjistily, že tradici si za peníze jen tak nekoupí a také zásadně podcenily komunikaci.
John Elvesjö är en av grundarna till techbolaget Tobii - som är världsbäst på ögonrörelseteknik. För snart två år sedan lämnade han sin roll som vice vd och blev investerare i Brightly Ventures. I år ska han bli en "hyperaktiv investerare", säger han, och siktar på att träffa 1000 bolag.Elvesjö menar att kvaliteten hos dagens entreprenörer är mycket högre än för tjugo år sedan när han själv och hans kompisar startade Tobii. På den tiden hängde han dessutom med Klarna-grundarna och Martin Lorentzon från Spotify. Vad säger det om dagens startups - och vilka bolag kommer han själv att satsa i? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Fifteen years ago in Stockholm, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon had a big idea. The music industry was playing a desperate game of whack-a-mole with piracy via file sharing but this was proving as hopeless as the War on Drugs. Why not, they thought, use the new torrenting technologies to bring piracy in from the cold and make themselves rich in the process? In 2006, they founded Spotify with a handful of engineers, no licences and no revenue. Today, Spotify is the world's most popular audio streaming subscription service with 345 million users and a market capitalization of $60 billion. How did the shy computer nerd and hyperactive investor tame hostile music labels and withstand competition from US tech giants more than ten times their size? Still struggling to achieve sustained profitability in cut-throat market segments, will Ek's latest foray into podcasting eventually free Spotify of its dependency on the music labels or suffer the same fate as Spotify TV? The Spotify Play: How CEO and Founder Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon in the Race for Audio Dominance (Diversion Books, 2021) is the new English-language update of Spotify Untold – their 2019 Swedish business biography – Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud put Europe's only tech giant under the microscope using information gleaned from interviews more than 80 sources and a mountain of public and private documents. The book has been translated into 15 languages and will soon be turned into a Netflix Originals miniseries. Sven Carlsson is a technology reporter at Swedish Radio and and Jonas Leijonhufvud a business journalist at Di Digital. *The authors own book recommendations are Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac (W. W. Norton, 2019) and Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe (William Collins, 2018). Tim Gwynn Jones is an economic and political-risk analyst at Medley Global Advisors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fifteen years ago in Stockholm, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon had a big idea. The music industry was playing a desperate game of whack-a-mole with piracy via file sharing but this was proving as hopeless as the War on Drugs. Why not, they thought, use the new torrenting technologies to bring piracy in from the cold and make themselves rich in the process? In 2006, they founded Spotify with a handful of engineers, no licences and no revenue. Today, Spotify is the world's most popular audio streaming subscription service with 345 million users and a market capitalization of $60 billion. How did the shy computer nerd and hyperactive investor tame hostile music labels and withstand competition from US tech giants more than ten times their size? Still struggling to achieve sustained profitability in cut-throat market segments, will Ek’s latest foray into podcasting eventually free Spotify of its dependency on the music labels or suffer the same fate as Spotify TV? The Spotify Play: How CEO and Founder Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon in the Race for Audio Dominance (Diversion Books, 2021) is the new English-language update of Spotify Untold – their 2019 Swedish business biography – Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud put Europe’s only tech giant under the microscope using information gleaned from interviews more than 80 sources and a mountain of public and private documents. The book has been translated into 15 languages and will soon be turned into a Netflix Originals miniseries. Sven Carlsson is a technology reporter at Swedish Radio and and Jonas Leijonhufvud a business journalist at Di Digital. *The authors own book recommendations are Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac (W. W. Norton, 2019) and Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe (William Collins, 2018). Tim Gwynn Jones is an economic and political-risk analyst at Medley Global Advisors. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm
Fifteen years ago in Stockholm, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon had a big idea. The music industry was playing a desperate game of whack-a-mole with piracy via file sharing but this was proving as hopeless as the War on Drugs. Why not, they thought, use the new torrenting technologies to bring piracy in from the cold and make themselves rich in the process? In 2006, they founded Spotify with a handful of engineers, no licences and no revenue. Today, Spotify is the world's most popular audio streaming subscription service with 345 million users and a market capitalization of $60 billion. How did the shy computer nerd and hyperactive investor tame hostile music labels and withstand competition from US tech giants more than ten times their size? Still struggling to achieve sustained profitability in cut-throat market segments, will Ek’s latest foray into podcasting eventually free Spotify of its dependency on the music labels or suffer the same fate as Spotify TV? The Spotify Play: How CEO and Founder Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon in the Race for Audio Dominance (Diversion Books, 2021) is the new English-language update of Spotify Untold – their 2019 Swedish business biography – Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud put Europe’s only tech giant under the microscope using information gleaned from interviews more than 80 sources and a mountain of public and private documents. The book has been translated into 15 languages and will soon be turned into a Netflix Originals miniseries. Sven Carlsson is a technology reporter at Swedish Radio and and Jonas Leijonhufvud a business journalist at Di Digital. *The authors own book recommendations are Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac (W. W. Norton, 2019) and Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe (William Collins, 2018). Tim Gwynn Jones is an economic and political-risk analyst at Medley Global Advisors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm
Fifteen years ago in Stockholm, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon had a big idea. The music industry was playing a desperate game of whack-a-mole with piracy via file sharing but this was proving as hopeless as the War on Drugs. Why not, they thought, use the new torrenting technologies to bring piracy in from the cold and make themselves rich in the process? In 2006, they founded Spotify with a handful of engineers, no licences and no revenue. Today, Spotify is the world's most popular audio streaming subscription service with 345 million users and a market capitalization of $60 billion. How did the shy computer nerd and hyperactive investor tame hostile music labels and withstand competition from US tech giants more than ten times their size? Still struggling to achieve sustained profitability in cut-throat market segments, will Ek’s latest foray into podcasting eventually free Spotify of its dependency on the music labels or suffer the same fate as Spotify TV? The Spotify Play: How CEO and Founder Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon in the Race for Audio Dominance (Diversion Books, 2021) is the new English-language update of Spotify Untold – their 2019 Swedish business biography – Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud put Europe’s only tech giant under the microscope using information gleaned from interviews more than 80 sources and a mountain of public and private documents. The book has been translated into 15 languages and will soon be turned into a Netflix Originals miniseries. Sven Carlsson is a technology reporter at Swedish Radio and and Jonas Leijonhufvud a business journalist at Di Digital. *The authors own book recommendations are Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac (W. W. Norton, 2019) and Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe (William Collins, 2018). Tim Gwynn Jones is an economic and political-risk analyst at Medley Global Advisors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm
Fifteen years ago in Stockholm, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon had a big idea. The music industry was playing a desperate game of whack-a-mole with piracy via file sharing but this was proving as hopeless as the War on Drugs. Why not, they thought, use the new torrenting technologies to bring piracy in from the cold and make themselves rich in the process? In 2006, they founded Spotify with a handful of engineers, no licences and no revenue. Today, Spotify is the world's most popular audio streaming subscription service with 345 million users and a market capitalization of $60 billion. How did the shy computer nerd and hyperactive investor tame hostile music labels and withstand competition from US tech giants more than ten times their size? Still struggling to achieve sustained profitability in cut-throat market segments, will Ek’s latest foray into podcasting eventually free Spotify of its dependency on the music labels or suffer the same fate as Spotify TV? The Spotify Play: How CEO and Founder Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon in the Race for Audio Dominance (Diversion Books, 2021) is the new English-language update of Spotify Untold – their 2019 Swedish business biography – Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud put Europe’s only tech giant under the microscope using information gleaned from interviews more than 80 sources and a mountain of public and private documents. The book has been translated into 15 languages and will soon be turned into a Netflix Originals miniseries. Sven Carlsson is a technology reporter at Swedish Radio and and Jonas Leijonhufvud a business journalist at Di Digital. *The authors own book recommendations are Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac (W. W. Norton, 2019) and Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe (William Collins, 2018). Tim Gwynn Jones is an economic and political-risk analyst at Medley Global Advisors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm
Fifteen years ago in Stockholm, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon had a big idea. The music industry was playing a desperate game of whack-a-mole with piracy via file sharing but this was proving as hopeless as the War on Drugs. Why not, they thought, use the new torrenting technologies to bring piracy in from the cold and make themselves rich in the process? In 2006, they founded Spotify with a handful of engineers, no licences and no revenue. Today, Spotify is the world's most popular audio streaming subscription service with 345 million users and a market capitalization of $60 billion. How did the shy computer nerd and hyperactive investor tame hostile music labels and withstand competition from US tech giants more than ten times their size? Still struggling to achieve sustained profitability in cut-throat market segments, will Ek’s latest foray into podcasting eventually free Spotify of its dependency on the music labels or suffer the same fate as Spotify TV? The Spotify Play: How CEO and Founder Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon in the Race for Audio Dominance (Diversion Books, 2021) is the new English-language update of Spotify Untold – their 2019 Swedish business biography – Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud put Europe’s only tech giant under the microscope using information gleaned from interviews more than 80 sources and a mountain of public and private documents. The book has been translated into 15 languages and will soon be turned into a Netflix Originals miniseries. Sven Carlsson is a technology reporter at Swedish Radio and and Jonas Leijonhufvud a business journalist at Di Digital. *The authors own book recommendations are Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac (W. W. Norton, 2019) and Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe (William Collins, 2018). Tim Gwynn Jones is an economic and political-risk analyst at Medley Global Advisors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm
I dagens avsnitt av Digitalpodden har vi vissa ljudproblem, vi beklagar detta. Spotifys grundare Martin Lorentzon gör som sin kollega Daniel Ek – och lovar att börja investera sina privata pengar i andra företag. Vi analyserar it-miljardärens nya drag. Samtidigt föll Spotifys aktie efter att streamingjätten rapporterat sitt tredje kvartal. Användartillväxten slog förväntningarna, men nu börjar marknaden oroa sig över att intäkterna per lyssnare sjunker. Vad blir Spotifys recept? Speljätten King är ett annat svenskt bolag som handlas på New York, som en del av jätten Activision Blizzard. Trots att 22 miljoner användare försvann under det tredje kvartalet förbättrade de sin rörelsemarginal till 46 procent. Candy Crush-bolaget har nu gjort en samlad rörelsevinst på 44 miljarder kronor under det senaste decenniet. Dessutom pratar vi om vår karläggning av Sveriges 40 mest lovande serieentreprenörer under 40 – och maträddarappen Karmas sexskämt som slog fel. Vår nya kollega Marianne Agazzi presenterar sig också för Digitalpoddens lyssnare. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
IT-entreprenör och en av grundarna av musiktjänsten Spotify 2006. Utsågs till Årets svensk i världen 2014. Om entreprenörskap, vad som har påverkat honom och hur man startar ett företag. Problemlösning i entreprenörsvardagen Martin Lorentzon ser på problem som något som går att lösa. -Värdet på ditt bolag är summan av alla problem som ni tillsammans löser. Han pratar även om vikten av att ha en bra företagskultur, att det är människorna som avgör om ett företag överlever eller inte. -Företagskulturen äter affärsidén och strategin till frukost, lunch och middag. Martin berättar om hur han och Daniel Ek lärde känna varandra och skapade Spotify, om licensieringen av musik och noteringen på den amerikanska börsen av företaget. En förutsättning för honom har varit bra lärare han har haft i skolan och vad de lärt honom. Idag vill han få in programmering som ett separat ämne i den svenska läroplanen för grundskolan. Om Martin Lorentzon IT-entreprenör, företagsledare, 51 år. Född i Borås, bosatt i Stockholm. Debuterar som Sommarvärd. En av grundarna av musiktjänsten Spotify 2006. Sitter i styrelsen för företaget som finns i stora delar av världen och som i slutet av maj är värderat till 350 miljarder kronor. Utsågs till Årets svensk i världen 2014. Var medgrundare av annonsförmedlingsföretaget Tradedoubler som börsnoterades 2005 och delar av vinsten användes för att starta Spotify tillsammans med Daniel Ek. Har suttit i Telias styrelse. Medlem i Kungl. Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien och hedersdoktor på Chalmers, där han utbildade sig till väg- och vatteningenjör. Tränar varje dag, åker skidor, spelar padeltennis, squash och poker. Favoritfilmer är Gudfadern 1, 2 och 3. Mitt program spänner från västgöta-knallarnas Borås, via techbolags-täta Stockholm till Spotifys börsintroduktion i New York. Jag berättar om entreprenörskap, vad som har påverkat mig och hur man startar ett företag. Producent: Mia Odabas
Spotify är det svenska succébolaget som vände upp och ned på en hel industri – och blev störst i världen. Bakom bolaget står som bekant två svenska entreprenörer, den idag 36-årige Daniel Ek och hans 14 år äldre medgrundare Martin Lorentzon. Dom lyckades ta Spotify från Rågsved till Wall street och lyckades med det som alla trodde var omöjlig.Erik Wisterberg och Jon Mauno Pettersson tar dig med bakom framgången på Spotify, och mejslar ut den framgångsfaktor dom de tror varit viktigast för det svenska succébolaget: Pengarna. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Stai ascoltando un estratto gratuito di Ninja PRO, la selezione quotidiana di notizie per i professionisti del digital business. Con Ninja PRO puoi avere ogni giorno marketing insight, social media update, tech news, business events e una selezione di articoli di approfondimento dagli esperti della Redazione Ninja. Vai su www.ninja.it/ninjapro per abbonarti al servizio.Buongiorno Ninja ecco le notizie selezionate per tePagine. Il tribunale civile di Roma ha accolto il ricorso di Casapound e ha ordinato a Facebook la riattivazione immediata del profilo chiuso lo scorso 9 settembre. Zuckerberg dovrà risarcire il movimento per 15 mila euro.Vocali. Una indagine di Bloomberg rivela i retroscena dei comandi vocali dietro Apple, Amazon, Google. La necessità di aumentare le capacità dell’AI per la comprensione del testo ha spinto i rivali in una corsa a trascrivere milioni di conversazioni di ignari acquirenti, attraverso una rete mondiali di lavoratori precari mal pagati.Sotto l'albero. L’acquisto dei regali di Natale avviene sempre di più nella settimana del Black Friday, dal 22 al 29 novembre. Lo ha rilevato Confcommercio nell’indagine sugli acquisti per i regali del Natale 2019 realizzata con Imprese per l’Italia in collaborazione con Format Research.Streaming. Netflix è al lavoro su una serie originale incentrata su Spotify, il celebre servizio di streaming musicale, soffermandosi soprattutto sui suoi cofondatori Daniel Ek e Martin Lorentzon.Da Alessio Galea è tutto, per approfondimenti Ninja.it
Digitalpodden punktmarkerar de svenskar som blivit miljardärer på tech. Varför kartlägger vi Sveriges förmögna it-entreprenörer – och var finns kvinnorna? Det är två av frågorna som Fredrik Björkman och Johannes Karlsson diskuterar i Digitalpodden. Vi pratar om Spotify-grundarna Daniel Ek och Martin Lorentzon som toppar listan, och varför Markus ”Notch” Perssons förmögenhet minskat med 3 miljarder kronor sedan den senaste kartläggningen.Dessutom avhandlar vi Microsofts nya markköp i Sverige, Goldman Sachs jätteinvestering i lånebolaget Brocc och Bonniers försäljning av riskkapitalbolaget NFT Ventures.Medverkar gör även Miriam Olsson Jeffery, Di Digitals korrespondent i Silicon Valley, och Di:s krönikör Andreas Cervenka. De pratar om kontorshotelljätten Weworks kommande börsnotering i USA. Blir det en flipp eller flopp? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Streamingtjänsten Spotify förändrade för alltid hur vi lyssnar på musik. P1 Kultur gästas av författarna till den första heltäckande boken bakom musikundret. För drygt 10 år sedan var det stora hotet mot musikindustrin illegal nedladdning och ett sinat intresse för att köpa plattor. Det var då Daniel Ek tillsammans med Martin Lorentzon skapade Spotify som inte bara räddade skivbolagen från piraterna, utan också ritade om förutsättningarna för hela musikindustrin. P1 Kultur gästas av ekonomijournalisterna Sven Carlsson och Jonas Leijonhufvud som skrivit boken "Spotify inifrån. Så blir man störst i världen." Författaren Michael Ondaatje har efter många års tystnad kommit ut med en ny roman. Jenny Teleman har läst "Lyktsken" som är en spionberättelse som utspelas i efterkrigstidens London. Nästa vecka drar Venedigbiennalen igång och Sveriges konstnär i den Nordiska Paviljongen är i år Ingela Ihrman. Hon jobbar i gränslandet mellan skulptur, video, performance och konceptkonst. I Venedig är det sjögräs som intresserat Ingela Ihrman till en installation som bland annat skapar länkar mellan tarmtång och människans mage och hennes hemkvarter Seved. Cecilia Blomberg hälsade på i Ingela Ihrmans ateljé i just Malmöstadsdelen Seved tidigare i våras - då delarna till installationen fortfarande höll på att tillverkas. Vi har också besökt den stora utställningen med systrarna Jobs keramik och textil som just nu pågår på Thielska galleriet i Stockholm. Måns Hirschfeldt vandrar runt med blomsterkonstnären Gunnar Kaj som gjort presentationen med Lisbet och Gocks Jobs verk i dialog med blommor och växter. I OBS-essän skriver författaren Helena Granström om själen. Finns den och i så fall hur och är det ens rätt fråga att ställa? Programledare: Måns Hirschfeldt Producent: Cecilia Blomberg
Il giovane Daniel Ek, cresciuto in un sobborgo di Stoccolma, ha due passioni: musica e informatica. A 14 anni inizia a progettare siti web, guadagnando in poco tempo una piccola fortuna con cui apre diverse società. Per problemi con il fisco è costretto a venderle, una dopo l’altra. una mossa che lo rende ricchissimo ma depresso. È quello che confida a Martin Lorentzon, l’imprenditore che gli ha comprato una delle società precedenti. Anche Martin è un eterno insoddisfatto, alla ricerca di nuove idee su cui investire denaro ed energie; insieme guardano al panorama musicale. Ek sogna di poter ricreare l’esperienza-Napster, il servizio illegale di condivisione mp3 che aveva trasformato il nostro modo di fruire la musica. Ma Daniel e Martin non vogliono creare l’ennesimo clone: quello che hanno in mente è un servizio di streaming, legale e gratuito. Una piattaforma che oggi esiste: si chiama Spotify e nasce dalle ambizioni condivise di Daniel e Martin.
In the early 2000's, Piracy was at its peak. Many users used file sharing sites like Napster, The Pirate Bay and many others to share stolen music. This caused the music industry to lose billions of dollars in revenue each year. So in 2006, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon went out to solve this problem of piracy to help fairly compensate artists and record labels for their work. And thus Spotify was born!Don't follow our social media pages:Facebook, Insta, Youtube: @bikebudieTwitter: @bud_bikeFeel free to give us a suggestion on what businesses you want to hear next time!Email us abernales@bikebudie.com
Start-upet Sniph, som backats finansiellt av profiler som Martin Lorentzon och Peter Settman har som affärsidé att ge sina kunder skräddarsydda parfymer i små doser baserat på kundens personlighet. De blev nyligen utsedda till ett av EUs hetaste startups och medgrundaren Tara Derakshan gästar dagens avsnitt. Hon berättar om deras resa från idé till verklighet samt viktiga lärdomar de fått på sin resa. Glöm inte prenumerera på podden och följ oss gärna på instagram.com/underfemton
I det tionde avsnittet av Uppstickarna möter programledarna Johanna Snickars och Karin Bäcklund den färggranna pr-kvinnan och entreprenören Linda Waxin. Hon berättar om sin resa från att ha blivit vd på Edelman vid 30, gå i "tillfällig pension" vid 33 på grund av akut sorg, varför hon sålde sin bostadsrätt och brände sitt fuck-off-kapital, skiftade karriär på grund av magkänsla, skaffade en "energikalkyl" och mäter nu sin framgång i måttet "vara sams med sig själv". Hör också hur hon ser på sitt personliga varumärke, hur det är att ha Martin Lorentzon som mentor och varför hon siktar på att bli än mer excentrisk. Linda brinner för risktagande och vikten av kvinnligt ägande, och berättar om vad hennes nystartade tankesmedja Ownershift arbetar med. Dessutom får vi en sneak peak på hur hennes techbolag Matching Id som matchar arbetsgivare med kandidater - utan "bias". See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Daniel Ek, co-founder and CEO of music streaming service Spotify. Mark Coles tracks the life of the shy Swede transforming the music industry. This week 35-year-old Daniel Ek became very, very rich when his company Spotify floated on the New York Stock Exchange - with an initial value of more than $26 billion. It's a long way from his home in a working-class suburb of Stockholm where Daniel's interest in both music and computers was piqued at an early age. He started his first businesses while a teenager, in between starring in school musicals, and earned his first fortune in his early 20s. He launched Spotify in 2006 with business partner Martin Lorentzon, with a goal to 'save the music industry' at a time when illegal downloads were eating into profits. Today Spotify has revolutionised the way we listen to music and last year Daniel Ek was named the most-powerful person in the music industry by Billboard magazine - but what does the future hold in store for the tech industry's latest billionaire? CONTRIBUTORS Tony Kinberg, Daniel Ek's former music teacher Kina Zeidler, journalist and author of Det Svenska Techundret (The Swedish Tech Miracle) Jonas Nordlander, co-founder & CEO of Avito and founder and former owner of Tradera. Pelle Lidell, founder of EKKO Music Rights Europe and former executive at Universal Music D.A. Wallach - musician, tech investor and former artists services lead at Spotify Diego Planas, former Spotify employee.
Join the Acquired Limited Partner program! https://kimberlite.fm/acquired/ (works best on mobile) Acquired wraps up a big few weeks of coverage with not an IPO or an M&A or a fundraising round, but what’s still the largest tech exit in recent memory: Spotify’s $30B direct public listing. We dive into what it all means and how we got here: from Napster to iTunes to Facebook (and even some Justin Timberlake thrown in for good measure). Acquired FM is on the scene and spinning all the hits from this new wave music industry titan! Note: We incorrectly described Spotify CEO Daniel Ek’s ownership stake in Spotify as 25%+; that is actually his voting control. His economic ownership is 9.3%, and cofounder Martin Lorentzon’s is 12.4%. We apologize for the error! Links: Internet History Podcast on the Napster Story with Jordan Ritter Sean Parker’s email to Daniel Ek Carve Outs: Ben: Black Panther (and soundtrack on Spotify!) David: “Silicon Ballet” panel at San Francisco Ballet on Saturday, April 28 Sponsor: Thanks to Perkins Coie, Counsel to Great Companies, for sponsoring Acquired Season 2. You can get in touch with Lee Schindler, who you heard at the beginning of this podcast, here.
Spotifys grundare Martin Lorentzon lämnar Telias styrelse. Digitalpodden reder ut turerna och förklarar varför Telia försöker sälja alla sina aktier i Spotify för drygt 2 miljarder kronor. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Livet på läktaren är skit. ÖSK förlorar matcher och guldet, eller åtminstone pallen, känns längre och längre bort. Men vi misströstar inte, vi kämpar för laget från staden vi älskar. I #GAMLATRÄ 16 möter Alfred Wreeby nyförvärvet Martin Lorentzon efter en stabil premiär mot Peking. I studion är Joel Höglund tillbaka med Johan Cedersjö. I detta avsnitt gör även dagdrivaren Anton Mencin oss sällskap. Utöver en lista hör vi också Patrik ringer - denna gång till en spelare som See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Det var meningen att Martin Lorentzon skulle besöka podden men ställde in i sista minuten. Med Lorentzo som nu lämnar AIK efter säsongen så hade vi velat sammanfatta hans tid i AIK och säsongen 2014. Men så blev det alltså inte. Istället öppnade vi upp för lyssnarna att ringa in och ställa frågor samt sjunka till vår kanske lägsta nivå hittills i podcastens historia. 0 % hjärna och 100 % hjärta med Björn och Martin. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.