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The Spotify Play
How CEO and Founder Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon in the Race for Audio Dominance
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The Spotify Play
How CEO and Founder Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon in the Race for Audio Dominance
About this book
Two journalists chronicle the David versus many Goliaths story of the streaming music giant's rise to success.
The American edition of the revelatory Swedish book Spotify Untold, the basis of the new Netflix Original series The Playlist, out now!
Steve Jobs tried to stop this moment from ever happening. Google and Microsoft made bids to preempt it. The music industry blocked it time and again. Yet, on a summer's eve in 2011, the whiz kid CEO of a Swedish start-up celebrated his company's US launch.
In the midst of the Apple-Android tech war and a music label crusade against piracy and illegal downloading, Spotify redrew the battle lines, sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley, and got the hardline executives at Universal, Sony, and Warner to sign with its "free-mium" platform.
In The Spotify Play, now adapted into an upcoming Netflix Original series, Swedish investigative tech journalists Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud, who covered the company from its inception, draw upon hundreds of interviews, previously untapped sources, and in-depth reporting on figures like Mark Zuckerberg, Sean Parker, Steve Jobs, Taylor Swift, Jay-Z, Pony Ma Huateng, and Jimmy Iovine. They have captured the riveting David vs. Goliath story of a disruptive innovator who played the industry giants in a quest to revolutionize the consumption of sound, building today's largest online source of audio, with more than 50 million songs, one million-plus podcasts, and over 300 million users.
Praise for The Spotify Play
"Two excellent Swedish journalists recount the historic rise of the company that changed modern music not just as a riveting business tale, but as a lesson in tech geopolitics. Spotify's Daniel Ek shows why Silicon Valley does not always win." āDavid Kirkpatrick, New York Timesābestselling author of The Facebook Effect
"An outsider-to-kingmaker narrative that should be read by every gun-shy entrepreneur too spooked by Silicon Valley's giants to go head-to-head with them.Ā .Ā .Ā . Carlsson and Leijonhufvud have tracked Mr. Ek's career since the early days, and their expertise shows. The Spotify Play isĀ .Ā .Ā . a revealing character study of an inventor who proved that the willingness to fight for an idea can indeed pay offāand that you don't have to be a pirate to have fun doing it." ā Wall Street Journal
The American edition of the revelatory Swedish book Spotify Untold, the basis of the new Netflix Original series The Playlist, out now!
Steve Jobs tried to stop this moment from ever happening. Google and Microsoft made bids to preempt it. The music industry blocked it time and again. Yet, on a summer's eve in 2011, the whiz kid CEO of a Swedish start-up celebrated his company's US launch.
In the midst of the Apple-Android tech war and a music label crusade against piracy and illegal downloading, Spotify redrew the battle lines, sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley, and got the hardline executives at Universal, Sony, and Warner to sign with its "free-mium" platform.
In The Spotify Play, now adapted into an upcoming Netflix Original series, Swedish investigative tech journalists Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud, who covered the company from its inception, draw upon hundreds of interviews, previously untapped sources, and in-depth reporting on figures like Mark Zuckerberg, Sean Parker, Steve Jobs, Taylor Swift, Jay-Z, Pony Ma Huateng, and Jimmy Iovine. They have captured the riveting David vs. Goliath story of a disruptive innovator who played the industry giants in a quest to revolutionize the consumption of sound, building today's largest online source of audio, with more than 50 million songs, one million-plus podcasts, and over 300 million users.
Praise for The Spotify Play
"Two excellent Swedish journalists recount the historic rise of the company that changed modern music not just as a riveting business tale, but as a lesson in tech geopolitics. Spotify's Daniel Ek shows why Silicon Valley does not always win." āDavid Kirkpatrick, New York Timesābestselling author of The Facebook Effect
"An outsider-to-kingmaker narrative that should be read by every gun-shy entrepreneur too spooked by Silicon Valley's giants to go head-to-head with them.Ā .Ā .Ā . Carlsson and Leijonhufvud have tracked Mr. Ek's career since the early days, and their expertise shows. The Spotify Play isĀ .Ā .Ā . a revealing character study of an inventor who proved that the willingness to fight for an idea can indeed pay offāand that you don't have to be a pirate to have fun doing it." ā Wall Street Journal
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Table of contents
- The Spotify Play
- Copyright
- Contents
- Prologue
- 1. A Secret Idea
- 2. The Engineers
- 3. RĆ„gsved
- 4. Party Like Itās 1999
- 5. Better Than Piracy
- 6. āWealth-type Moneyā
- 7. All Music for Free
- 8. Bridge to America
- 9. āSchmuck Insuranceā
- 10. Sean & Zuck
- 11. āWinter is Comingā
- 12. Spotify TV
- 13. Apple Buys Beats
- 14. Death Valley
- 15. From Nashville to Brooklyn
- 16. Big Data
- 17. Brilliant Sweden
- 18. The Streaming Wars
- 19. Wall Street
- 20. The House That Daniel Built
- Acknowledgments
- References and Sources
- About the Authors
- Footnote