Daniel Ek

But I do think the universal truth is that happiness trails impact.

But impact is something that's highly unique.

It could be something innate in you.

It could be having impact on other people.

It could be, you know, having impact by being a great father around your kids.

I don't pretend to know that I think that there's one game to play or one universal truth to life.

I certainly believe from entrepreneurial types that...

probably more to myself, more like myself that, you know, this is sort of a, one of those sort of key things is really consider impact.

I wasn't happy.

So I was content for a moment of time.

I was 22.

I never had much success with women because I was a computer geek.

And back then, computers was not the coolest thing in the world.

And, you know, so I was like, okay, well, now I've got all this money and, you know, this was my worldview.

I can go out in nightclubs and I'm going to be the cool guy.

And I had fun for a while.

I'll tell you that.

Yeah.

But it also was incredibly hollowing because, you know, I realized that these girls weren't with me because of me.

They were with me because, you know, I had status and I was able to use money to buy status and be a cool guy for a small moment of time.