Daniel Ek

Daniel Ek is a Swedish billionaire entrepreneur and technologist. Ek is best known as the co-founder and CEO of the music streaming service Spotify.

• Stockholm-born Daniel Ek is the cofounder and CEO of streaming music service Spotify.
• The company has more than 180 million users, 87 million of whom are paying subscribers.
• Via a dual-class share system Ek owns nearly 9% of the shares, but has 37% of voting control.
• Ek and his business parter Martin Lorentzon founded the company in 2006 in Sweden, and launched the product in 2008.
• Spotify listed its shares on the New York Stock Exchange in early April 2018 in an unusual direct listing, eschewing the services of investment banks.