Daniel Ek currently serves as a CEO of Spotify. Lorentzon had previously worked at TradeDoubler, a company he co-founded. Initially, Spotify ran on a peer-to-peer distribution model, similar to uTorrent, but switched to a server-client model in 2014. In 2006, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon set up Spotify AB in Stockholm, Sweden. In October 2008, the company launched its legal music streaming service Spotify. Listen to this episode from All About Movies With Anupama Chopra on Spotify. What effect do you want your travels to have on the world Today Im joined by Co-Founder and CEO of AFAR, Greg Sullivan. Lorentzon had previously worked at TradeDoubler, a company he co-founded. Listen to this episode from Zero To Travel Podcast on Spotify. In 2006, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon set up Spotify AB in Stockholm, Sweden. Strigeus would join Ek as a Spotify developer. This ended when μTorrent was sold to BitTorrent on December 7, 2006. The sale of the company, along with his previous work, had made him wealthy enough that he decided to retire, but returned to work a few months later after changing his mind.Īlso in 2006, Ek was briefly the CEO of μTorrent, working with μTorrent founder Ludvig Strigeus.

In March 2006, Ek sold the company he founded, Advertigo, to TradeDoubler. He was a part of the Nordic auction company Tradera (acquired by Ebay) and Evertigo. Daniel Ek founded his first company in 1997 at the age of 14.

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