Daniel Ek
CEO, Spotify
$6.98B
as of 02/16/26
About Daniel Ek
Daniel Ek is the cofounder of streaming music service Spotify and remained its CEO through 2025.
He announced plans to assume the role of executive chairman in 2026, focusing more on the company's long-term strategy.
Ek and his business parter Martin Lorentzon founded the company in 2006 in Sweden, and launched the product in 2008.
Today, Spotify boasts over 696 million users and 276 million subscribers across 184 markets.
In September 2021, Ek pledged to invest 1 billion euros in European technology, cofounding VC firm Prima Materia
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SwedenSource of wealth
SpotifyResidence
Stockholm, SwedenMarital status
MarriedBirth date
02/21/83 (age 42)Number of children
2Self-made
self-madeDaniel Ek’s fortune is worth
116K
troy ounces of gold
107K
median U.S. household
70K
median U.S. income
0.14%
U.S. credit card volume
0.028%
GDP of the United States
0.021%
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Ek plays guitar, bass, drums, piano and harmonica and is close friends with Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg.
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