Daniel Ek

Like, you know, it was from everyone in my school, maybe in the early days to everyone in Stockholm, some somewhat later to everyone in Europe at some point.

And now it's like the most brilliant entrepreneurs change.

of our time that I'm constantly comparing myself to.

And obviously, I don't believe that I'm as good as them.

But I believe I am slightly different than them in some ways.

And I believe that if I work really, really hard on something, I can make something really great.

And that's the sort of bar that I keep for myself.

And

For me, it really stems also from sort of this notion, back to what you were talking about, about sort of the realization that through computers, right?

Steve Jobs has the saying, it's the bicycle of our mind, which was really how I felt about computers growing up.

It's just this magic tool that allows me to solve so many other things and create things.

That's how I feel about podcasts.

Yeah.

And so, you know, I knew I wanted to do that.

And I also knew that, you know, my co-founder, Martin, he has this thing he keeps saying, the value of a company is the sum of all problems solved.

And so what I keep doing is essentially I've got this –

toolbox called a computer.

And I got all these problems around the world.

Which problems am I passionate about solving?

And which problems can I spend the next decade of my life fixing?