Fireside Chat and Q&A with Daniel Ek, Founder of Spotify
We welcome ETH students and researchers to join us for a conversation with one of Europe's most successful tech entrepreneurs, Daniel Ek.
Daniel will speak about how his own entrepreneurial journey started and how Spotify grew from an idea into Europe's biggest tech company worth nearly $150bn today.
We will discuss what it takes for technical universities like ETH to produce not just talent density and advanced technologies but companies that can transform global industries and change the world for the better.
We invite you to submit questions to Daniel about his approach to building companies or advice for your own entrepreneurial ambitions ahead of the event.
Please sign up with your ETH or UZH email address.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Many thanks to ETH Entrepreneurship, the AI Center, the Entrepreneur Club and the Robotics Club for helping us organise this event.
About Daniel Ek
From an early age, Daniel Ek was passionate about music, computers and entrepreneurship. A disrupter from the start, he built his first business at age 13, revolutionised the music industry with Spotify and is doing it again in the wellbeing space with Neko Health. His life’s mission is to support “moonshot” technologies that help humanity and the world.
Daniel is the co-founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Spotify, the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service. Spotify has more than 696 million users, including 276 million subscribers in over 180 markets.
In addition to Spotify, he is the founder of Prima Materia, a European investment company that builds and develops new companies for the long term. Prima Materia’s philosophy is centred in the belief that Europe is home to incredible researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs and can attract great talent from all over the world. By supporting these companies – which include Neko Health and Helsing - real, global progress can be driven out of Europe, in areas that matter most to society.
In 2018, Daniel co-founded Neko Health, an affordable, preventive health technology company that employs AI and advanced sensors for full-body scans, aimed at the early detection of the most common chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and skin cancer. The company opened its first clinic in Stockholm in 2023 and in London in 2024.