Swedish entrepreneur and CEO of Spotify, the world's largest music streaming platform, who transformed music distribution from ownership to access and subsequently extended the model to podcasting.
Built Spotify into the music industry's dominant streaming layer by negotiating licensing deals that saved the industry from piracy-driven collapse, then used the podcast acquisition strategy (Gimlet, Anchor, Ringer) to attempt replicating that model in audio.
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