Daniel Ek (Music Streaming / Tech) at Spotify — Stockholm, Sweden

Daniel Ek co-founded Spotify in 2006 in Stockholm, determined to fight music piracy by building a legal alternative that was better than the pirated options. Spotify went public via a direct listing in 2018 and became the world's most-used music streaming platform with over 600 million users. Ek is also a major investor in European deep tech, backing defense company Saab and AI startup Mistral.