Daniel Ek
Daniel Ek Born (1983-02-21) 21 February 1983 (age 31) Sweden Nationality Swedish Occupation CEO and Founder, Spotify Net worth US$ 400 million Daniel Ek (born 21 February 1983) is a Swedish entrepreneur and a technologist who started the music streaming service Spotify and previous CEO of µTorrent, a popular BitTorrent client. He founded his first company in 1997 at the age of 14. His ventures have included the founding of Advertigo, the advertising company acquired by TradeDoubler and has been a part of the Nordic auction company Tradera (acquired by Ebay) and Evertigo. Ek's previous jobs include CTO at Jajja Communications, CTO at Stardoll[citation needed] and CEO of uTorrent one of the most popular bitTorrent Clients. Daniel Ek joined the IT Gymnasium in Sundbyberg.[citation needed] He enrolled at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology but did not complete his degree. He has a total net worth of approximately $400 million.[citation needed] On 3 October 2013 Daniel Ek was inducted into SUP46's Swedish Startup Hall of Fame.