Daniel Ek on Creating Spotify, Joe Rogan, AI in Music, Creators, New Products & More

Kallaway sits down with Daniel Ek (CEO/Founder of Spotify) to chat through their expansion into video and creator platform.

We explored Rogan's impact on Spotify's video strategy, Daniel's thoughts around the future of music with AI, how creators should think about Spotify in their content mix, and more!

Video Time Stamps:
0:00 Intro
1:06 Innovator’s Dilemma: How did Spotify decide to expand beyond music?
4:59 How should creators think about Spotify in their mix of content platforms?
6:29 The rise of the creative entrepreneur
8:43 What is the future of AI in music?
11:52 Skill-moat to taste-moat
13:05 The vision for Neko Health
14:52 What is Spotify working on that could be frame breaking consumer tech in the next 5-10 years?

What is Blueprint?

For worldbuilders...

A worldbuilder is a visionary, architecting an empire on their own terms through a unique mix of content, design, products & experiences.

As a worldbuilder, the goal is to create total immersion for any citizen or tourist that spends time in your world.

The best mainstream examples are Apple, Disney, Tesla. Other modern ones include Sunday, Poolsuite, Represent.

Blueprint is a show designed to interview worldbuilders and breakdown the blueprints, playbooks, and strategies they used to create their worlds.

Guests will include creators, founders, entrepreneurs, artists, makers, and more.

Blueprint is hosted by Kallaway, a creator entrepreneur building Wavy, a world for worldbuilders.

Kallaway has been publishing a detailed report of his entrepreneurial journey since he went full-time in July 2023. The series is also called Blueprint (https://blueprint.game).

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