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  2. Spotify - Wikipedia

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    Spotify was founded in 2006 in Stockholm, Sweden, [16] by Daniel Ek, ... it considers factors such as the user's home country and the individual artist's royalty rate ...

  3. Daniel Ek - Wikipedia

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    Daniel Ek. Daniel Georg Ek (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈdɑ̂ːnɪɛl ˈjěːɔrj ěːk]; born 21 February 1983) is a Swedish businessman and technologist. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of music streaming service Spotify. [2] As of May 2024, his net worth was estimated at $4.8 billion by Forbes.

  4. Martin Lorentzon - Wikipedia

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    Entrepreneur. Known for. Co-founder of Tradedoubler and Spotify. Board member of. Spotify. Sven Hans Martin Lorentzon (pronounced [ˈmǎʈːɪn ˈlôːrɛnˌsɔn]; born 1 April 1969) is a Swedish entrepreneur and co-founder of Tradedoubler and Spotify. [1] From 2013 to 2018 he was on the board of Telia Company. Since April 2019, he has been an ...

  5. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says he thought the company was a ... - AOL

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    After launching in 2008, Spotify hit 1 million streamers in 2011 and passed 500 million users in April this year. The company is now valued at around $30 billion and Ek himself is worth about $2.8 ...

  6. Music streaming service - Wikipedia

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    In 2006, Swedish businessman Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon founded Spotify, which first launched in 2008; aiming to create a legal alternative to file sharing platforms such as Napster and Kazaa, the service allowed users to stream songs on-demand using peer-to-peer technology, and would be offered in subscription-based and ad-supported tiers ...

  7. SoundCloud - Wikipedia

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    SoundCloud is a Swedish-founded German headquartered audio streaming service owned and operated by SoundCloud Global Limited & Co. KG. [10][11] The service enables its users to upload, promote, and share audio. Founded in 2007 by Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss, SoundCloud is one of the largest music streaming services in the world and is ...

  8. Sean Parker - Wikipedia

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    Alexandra Lenas. . (m. 2013) . Children. 2. Sean Parker (born December 3, 1979) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, most notable for co-founding the file-sharing computer service Napster, and was the first president of the social networking website Facebook.

  9. Tidal (service) - Wikipedia

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    Tidal (stylized TIDAL) is a Norwegian-American music streaming service, launched in 2014 by the Norwegian-Swedish public company Aspiro.Tidal is now majority-owned by Block, Inc., an American payment processing company originally owned by Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey, [2] but now a public company traded on the NYSE under the ticker SQ.