[Global Billionaires Series 51] Daniel Ek, Innovator of the Digital Era
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The Revolutionary Who Rewrote the Music Industry Landscape [Prologue] (1) In the cultural history of humanity, the monumental tectonic shifts that fundamentally altered how sound is distributed were never achieved through accidental fortune or fleeting ideas. At the threshold of the fin-de-siècle chaos spanning the late 20th and early 21st centuries, countless audiophiles and music producers worldwide watched helplessly as they sank beneath the massive tidal wave of unbridled digital file duplication and illegal sharing. When the sturdy physical ramparts of CDs and LP records crumbled away into nothingness, pushing the entire recording industry to the precipice of extinction, the individual who established an entirely new constitutional order of civilization across this lawless, pirate-infested digital sea was Daniel Ek, the CEO of Spotify. He did not stop at merely opening a virtual digital shop to buy and sell songs. He wove every single melody existing on earth in real-time ac...