Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify, on how hard it is to build a company

WATCH FULL EPISODE: http://thisweekinstartups.com/daniel-ek-spotify/ Daniel Ek discusses at STHLM TECH FEST how hard it is to start a company. He lost a lot of money on a search engine to compete with Google before getting into why entrepreneurs outside of the industry may be the best at starting a company within that industry. Daniel Ek started Spotify in 2006 with a vision to revitalize the music industry, by giving consumers unprecedented access to tracks and creating a novel, sustainable business model. Now music-streaming is the norm, every player is in the game — and pioneer Spotify is…