Daniel Ek

Okay, well, what does that mean?

And what does that unlock?

And, and that for me is just, um, it's so much fun and I couldn't imagine, you know, not spending every single day doing this.

And, you know, we, we, we started this journey by telling my story that I didn't have to work.

And that's why I started Spotify because I love music and, and I wanted to figure out a way where consumers got what they wanted and creators were able to get paid by doing what they love to do.

And that's really the genesis of the story.

But even today, you know, I'm thinking about this and I said, even if you remove all the money, even from the beginning, even in the middle and even now, there's no way I wouldn't do this and spend much of my awakened time thinking about this stuff.

Just sort of like, for me, this is impact and this is what leads to happiness in my life story.

I like the process of science.

I like the process of discovery.

I like the process of understanding how things work.

You know, I've been wired this way all my life.

I've been pulling apart computers.

I've been trying to understand why a semiconductor works the way it works, all these things.

And I'm intrigued about that.

Just this thing about understanding everything, understanding life, understand where we come from, understanding all these different things.

but I'm equally interested in solving problems.

And when you're curious about both of those two angles, you can end up finding these sort of connection points where those two things meet, where it's obvious that there is something over there that no one's really kind of applied in this way before.

And maybe there's not one idea, but two ideas over there.

It's quite interesting.