Daniel Ek

Well, you know, again, I do believe that focusing all your time and effort on this one thing and obsess about it and almost to the point where you're not even aware of the rest of the world that goes on is what creates greatness.

And I know you can relate to this, but that's how Spotify came to be.

I literally couldn't care about anything else for at the very least the first 15 years.

Only now am I foolish enough to believe that actually, you know what, I might be able to do multiple things at the same time again, which was sort of my spirit in my 20s.

I certainly think so.

And because my leadership style is so different than many of these sort of entrepreneurs that most of us sort of look up to and hail, whether it's the Steve Jobses or Elon Musks, etc.

I just don't feel like...

There's a vague resemblance with them, but it's just not me.

It's like, I'm a very different archetype of entrepreneur.

Well, I think, you know, again, as a young entrepreneur myself, I went through the book like so many of us by becoming enamored by an entrepreneur and looking up to them, in many cases because they have traits that I didn't have.

and so um we read all these stories whether it's biographies or or articles about how they manage their company and how uh how they live their lives and the routines that they have and certainly in my case like you know i certainly tried to mimic steve jobs i certainly tried to mimic bases and gates and all of the great ones um you know the the very charismatic ones like howard schultz of starbucks and

You know, I've learned from all of them.

And in a way, I've tried to imitate them, right?

Because I thought that they were so great at what they do.

But every single time I've walked away being disillusioned because I realized, obviously, that it didn't work for me.

And so this sort of idea of this archetype is like, I bet you that there's plenty of entrepreneurs out there that read about currently, whether it's Mark Zuckerberg or Jensen or any of these things.

And they're like, that's not me.

So I guess I'm not as good as them.

And I can't do what they're doing.

So clearly, I don't have it in me.