Daniel Ek

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Daniel Ek is a Swedish serial entrepreneur and a technologist who started his first company 1997 at the age of 14. Daniel's most recent creation (with Martin Lorentzon), is a legal music streaming service Spotify. Daniel has also founded Advertigo, the advertising company acquired by TradeDoubler and has been a part of the Nordic auction company Tradera (acquired by Ebay) and Evertigo. Daniel's previous jobs include CTO at Jajja Communications, CTO at Stardoll and CEO of µTorrent, the worlds most popular BitTorrent client with more than 100 million downloads. Daniel Ek joined the IT Gymnasiet in Sundbyberg at age of 15.