We have established that Daniel had quite a journey from the age of 14 until him entering the list of billionaires of the world. The beauty about being a businessman at such an early age was that Ek did whatever he liked, and his parents only learnt of his lucrative business when they noticed his video game collection and expensive guitars.

In an interview in 2013, Daniel said he started out designing website home pages for his friends, but as business scaled with local companies he began to charge $5,000 and made nearly $50,000 in a month. He used to design and host websites for companies, from his high school computer lab or friend’s family home in Stockholm according to Forbes. Makes you wonder what you were doing at 23, no? Daniel learnt to code himself in his early teens and started his first business at the age of 14. He became a millionaire at 23 years’ old which was two years before the launch of Spotify. However, Daniel is now accustomed to making huge sums of money at a very early age. This fact might inspire some of us, and also come as a surprise. Ek’s stake after trading closed on the first day was about 9% of the total net worth which is roughly 2.5 billion as reported by CNBC. This listing is different from the POs as the company is both listing and offering shares at the same time, without any help from the banks. This happened after the most loved streaming service went public on 4 th April 2018. The thirty-five-year-old co founder and CEO of Spotify – Daniel Ek, is now the newest billionaire from the tech industry.

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