Daniel Ek Swedish entrepreneur businessman is co-founder and CEO of the Spotify music app. He is on trending headlines nowadays, because of showing interest in his Twitter account for buying Arsenal football club. He twitted( @eldsjal) to buy arsenal as childhood memory to support the FC if the Kroenke is willing to sell. Arsenal nickname is the Gunners given by their fan. It’s a professional football team that plays premiere leagues based in Islington, London, England. The current owner of Arsenal is Kroenke sports and entertainment.
Who is Daniel Ek
Daniel Ek is a Swedish technologist and computer programming businessman. He was born on February 21, 1983, in Ragsved, near Stockholm, Sweden. Daniel started working at age of 13 years old by creating websites and web relatable work. He charged $100 for his first website work and foe next he doubled the amount to $200 and continues to on $500. After that, his manage to invite his friends and classmate including a bribe to them with a video game for work with him. He studied engineering as he is interested in computers. He is a dropped-out college student and worked with Advertigo, an online marketing firm that he sold in 2006 to the Swedish company Tradedoubler.
After that in 2008, Daniel launched the Spotify music service app with TradeDoubler’s cofounder Martin Lorentzon and he became CEO. Spotify subscribers are free to listen to online music without paying for downloads by allowing only some $5 or $10 subscription charge. The Spotify music app incredibly hits huge. It has a market value of $27.
Daniel Ek family
He is a married man with two children. He married his longtime girlfriend, Sofia lavender at Lake Como. Their marriage was attended by many famous and popular faces like Comedian Chris Rock and Mark Zuckerberg. Famous singer Bruno Mars performed at their wedding.
Daniel career and net worth in 2021
He started his career at the age of 13, he used to make a website then. He completed his high school from IT-Gymnasiet in Sundbyberg in 2002. Then for engineering, he went to KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He is a dropper student still co-founder of Spotify. The music streaming app has 350 million subscribers with 87 million paying subscriptions. Ek is worth $4.7bn according to Forbes.
Life sketch ( Bio):
| Name | Daniel Ek |
| Birthdate | February 21, 1983 |
| Birthplace | Ragsved, near Stockholm, Swedan |
| Height | 5 feet 1 inch |
| weight | 80kg |
| Hair color | Blonde |
| Eye color | Blue |
| Measurement | NA |
| Zodiac sign | Pisces |
| Profession | Cofounder and CEO of Spotify |
| Citizenship | Swedish |
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