A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.
At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.
We led with our conviction rather than rational, because rational said it was impossible.
There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
The value of a company is the sum of the problems you solve.
People just want to have access to all of the world's music.
I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.
Writing is above all a question of instinct.
Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
I hate normal studios, because you have to say "hi" to the person at the front desk. And then you go into the studio, and there's a second engineer in there that you don't know, and then you're stuck in a glass box with someone talking to you through a walkie-talkie.