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I get to meet really interesting people.
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Interesting People
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It's hard to criticize someone who's hugely successful.
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Criticize
Hugely
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I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.
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Inventor
Want
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The value of a company is the sum of the problems you solve.
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Company
Problem
Solve
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People just want to have access to all of the world's music.
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Access
People
Want
World
Music World People
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I don't think we see ourselves as the savior of the music industry.
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Music Industry
Savior
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I was the first real generation to have their teens on the Internet.
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Teens
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But right now we have an advantage of being the number one in music.
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Music
Advantage
Numbers
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A playlist can be very versatile, almost like a programming language.
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Programming
Versatile
Programming Language
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Spotify is a platform: it could be expanded to other types of content.
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Spotify
Content
Platform
Types
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I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.
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Born
Piracy
Sweden
Services
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We look at the sharing of music as really, really important for our business.
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Business Music Look
Sharing
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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Friends
People
Spotify
Trying
People Try Tell
Tell
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At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.
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Music Industry
The End Of The Day
Today
Want
End Of The Day
Larger
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We led with our conviction rather than rational, because rational said it was impossible.
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Inspiring
Entrepreneur
Impossible
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Spotify wants to make consuming music simpler and at the same time pay the rights owners.
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Consuming
Owners
Rights
Spotify
Same Time
Simpler
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Ask yourself: given everything you have to do, is there a way that we can make this better?
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Asks
Given
Way
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Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
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Consumers
Focus
Actually
Listen
Put
Saying
Tell
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We're focused on growing the pie so the artists can go back to making a meaningful amount of money.
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Amount
Focused
Meaningful
Pie
Artists
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I'm just interested in building a company that doesn't necessarily change lives but adapts people's behaviour.
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Behaviour
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No one wants to wait for tracks to buffer or spend hours searching through a Web site to find their favorite song.
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Song
Track
Waiting
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If you look at Adele, the reason she did so well was she created great music. It wasn't about a clever marketing trick.
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Clever
Great Music
Marketing
Reason
Adele
Did
Music Great Look
Trick
She
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In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears.
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Comfortable
Gaga
People
Spears
Two
Britney
Britney Spears
Exceptions
Lady
Lady Gaga
Sharing
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The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'
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Pay
People
Spotify
Want
Music Me People
Main
Main Reason
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At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.
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Musician
Spotify
Want
Winning
Best Music Your
Democratically
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I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.
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Guy
Uncertain
Wanted
Cooler
Deeply
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When I think about music in the future, I don't make a distinction between what's radio, what used to be the music library, and so on.
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Distinction
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Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists.
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Artist
Dollars
Two
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What we do is wake up every morning and think about how we get more music out to people; how do we get better music? We breathe, eat, and sleep music.
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Breathe
Sleep
Wake Up
Wake
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It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.
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Artist
Disturbed
Diversity
Music Industry
People
Drain
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With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter than any survey or discussion with a big company.
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Advice
Discussion
Great People
Networking
People
Tools
Twitter
Big Company
Survey
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I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.
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Acoustics
Guitar
Headphones
Really Cool
Acoustic
Bought
Fold
Plug
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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Legal
Bigger
Millions
Months
Music Industry
People
Way
Month
Consume
Millions Of People
Service
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This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.
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Artist
Communicate
Creating
Mars
Spotify
Thinking
Directly
Music Fans Way
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We are passionate about making it so that users enjoy the music that they want to enjoy but at the same time fairly compensates artists. That's not the same as saving the music industry.
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Music Industry
Users
Fairly
Time Music Want
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Buying sports cars, going to expensive nightclubs, spraying people with champagne and things like that - what I learnt is that it wasn't for me, and, in fact, I feel pretty empty after doing that.
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Buying
Champagne
Empty
Expensive
Nightclubs
Sports Me People
Learnt
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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Five
Matter
Minutes
News
Relevant
Seconds
Song
Today
Matters
Latest
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Piracy was kind of hard: It took a few minutes to download a song. It was kind of cumbersome. You had to worry about viruses. It's not like people want to be pirates. They just want a great experience.
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Piracy
Viruses
Experience Great People
Download
Great Experience
Pirates
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I'm not saying you can't be successful in the music industry without Spotify. But when I look at the future of music, I don't think scarcity is the model anymore. We have to embrace ubiquity - that music is everywhere.
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Music
Future
Embrace
Industry
Music Industry
Scarcity
Spotify
Successful
Everywhere
Anymore
Future Music Look
Model
Look
Saying
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In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact that almost a third of the U.S. population have even heard of Spotify is really because they've seen it on Facebook and friends have been sharing.
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Facts
Order
Population
Spotify
Facebook
Sharing
Third
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I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.
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Music
Technology
Band
Decided
Enough
Growing
Growing Up
One Day
Passion
Spotify
Two
Started
Along
Came
Combine
Companies
Talented
Passions
Tried
While
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For me, as someone growing up in a working-class suburb in Stockholm, I couldn't afford all the music. So back in '98, '99, I was really thinking about how I could get all the music and do it in a legal way while at the same time compensating the artist.
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Legal
Stockholm
Working Class
Time Music Thinking
Afford
Same Time
Suburb
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I had always wanted to belong, and I had been thinking that this was going to get solved when I had money, and instead, I had no idea how I wanted to live my life. And no one teaches you what to do after you achieve financial independence. So I had to confront that.
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Independence
Achieve
Financial
No Idea
Belong
Confront
Solved
Teaches
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I realised that you can never legislate away from piracy. Laws can definitely help, but it doesn't take away the problem. The only way to solve the problem was to create a service that was better than piracy and at the same time compensates the music industry - that gave us Spotify.
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Music
Industry
Music Industry
Piracy
Problem
Realised
Solve
Spotify
Laws
Time Music Better
Away
Same
Take
Create
Definitely
Gave
Help
Legislate
Same Time
Service
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There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
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Legal
Artist
Creating
Majority
Music Industry
New Music
Online
People
Spotify
Great Music People
Artists
Billion
Vast
Double
Vast Majority
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We kind of look at music as something very natural in people's lives. I mean, most of us can relate to music in some sort of shape and form, and if you think about it, most of us remember the first time we kissed someone, what kind of music was playing or the song that was playing on our friend's birthday.
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Birthday
First Time
Form
Natural
Relate
Song
Time Music Look
Friend
Shape
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