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David Senra

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6203 total appearances

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Huberman Lab
DAVID SENRA: Daniel Ek, Spotify

I'm going to throw all my money in there.

Huberman Lab
DAVID SENRA: Daniel Ek, Spotify

And he's just like, I'm doing it because I love to do it.

Huberman Lab
DAVID SENRA: Daniel Ek, Spotify

And spending time doing anything else would be an absolute distraction.

Huberman Lab
DAVID SENRA: Daniel Ek, Spotify

And Nick Sleep talks about this because he's –

Huberman Lab
DAVID SENRA: Daniel Ek, Spotify

a capital allocator.

Huberman Lab
DAVID SENRA: Daniel Ek, Spotify

He's not building a product, but he's making capital allocation decisions.

Huberman Lab
DAVID SENRA: Daniel Ek, Spotify

Like, do I need to sell this stock, put it into another one?

Huberman Lab
DAVID SENRA: Daniel Ek, Spotify

I'm weighing my opportunity costs.

Huberman Lab
DAVID SENRA: Daniel Ek, Spotify

And he was haunted almost by this idea.

Huberman Lab
DAVID SENRA: Daniel Ek, Spotify

If you look at financial history, it's like he talked about a firm, a financial firm one day where they're like, okay,

Huberman Lab
DAVID SENRA: Daniel Ek, Spotify

uh, we owned IBM in the 1950s.

Huberman Lab
DAVID SENRA: Daniel Ek, Spotify

I didn't know until I read Michael Dell's autobiography, right?

Huberman Lab
DAVID SENRA: Daniel Ek, Spotify

Because IBM was, it's like, they're the most powerful and wealthiest company in the world when me and you were born, okay?

Huberman Lab
DAVID SENRA: Daniel Ek, Spotify

And Michael Dell's like, you have to understand, like 1987 for me to like yell out to my dad, he's like, what do you want to do for a living?

Huberman Lab
DAVID SENRA: Daniel Ek, Spotify

He's like,

Huberman Lab
DAVID SENRA: Daniel Ek, Spotify

I want to compete with IBM.

Huberman Lab
DAVID SENRA: Daniel Ek, Spotify

I'm a 19-year-old in my dorm room with $1,000.

Huberman Lab
DAVID SENRA: Daniel Ek, Spotify

Like, what kind of grandiose ambition do you have?

Huberman Lab
DAVID SENRA: Daniel Ek, Spotify

I went and started.

Huberman Lab
DAVID SENRA: Daniel Ek, Spotify

I was like, why is this so crazy?