Daniel Ek

Daniel Ek
Born	21 February 1983 (1983-02-21) (age 28) Sweden
Nationality	Swedish
Occupation	CEO and Founder, Spotify

Daniel Ek is a Swedish entrepreneur and a technologist who started his first company 1997 at the age of 14 (Ref?). Daniel's most recent creation (with Martin Lorentzon),^[1] is a legal music streaming service Spotify. Daniel has also founded Advertigo, the advertising company acquired by TradeDoubler and has been a part of the Nordic auction company Tradera (acquired by Ebay) and Evertigo. Daniel's previous jobs include CTO at Jajja Communications, CTO at Stardoll and CEO of µTorrent, the worlds most popular BitTorrent client with more than 100 million downloads. Daniel Ek joined the IT Gymnasiet in Sundbyberg at age of 15.

Spotify

Daniel co-founded Spotify where he currently serves as a CEO.^[2]

References

1. ^ "Daniel Ek Background Information (Spotify)". http://www.spotify.com/en/about/press/background-info/. Retrieved 2009-09-19. 
2. ^ "Spotify Information". http://www.crunchbase.com/person/daniel-ek. Retrieved 2009-09-19. 

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Name	Ek, Daniel
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Date of birth	1983-02-21
Place of birth	Sweden
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